| Saudi Arabia, thanks largely to MBS, seems to be increasingly aligning against Iran | "I do not doubt the pressure that the Saudis are under, like other Arab states in the region, having to essentially buy off their extreme groups in order to maintain themselves," Biden the Council on Foreign Relations about five weeks after the attacks |
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| Egypt under Sisi might not be a bastion of human rights, but it is far better for Israel and regional stability that he, and not the Muslim Brotherhood, is in control | Earlier this year, the USS Nimitz left the region, and the USS Eisenhower now is headed there |
As Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution has , the Saudi air force would be grounded in short order without such support.
| While Washington resented what many perceived to be Saudi attempts at blackmail, Riyadh had its own grievances in what they perceived as | While the overall conclusion was first reported two years ago, Biden declassified the report, reversing a decision by his predecessor, former President |
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| Notably missing from the readout was any mention about expected release of the report about the killing of Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post and a permanent resident of the U | In 2017, MBS that he hoped Israeli investment would help develop Neom, which Saudi Arabia hopes will become a futuristic high-tech city |
For decades, the Saudis on former diplomats, lobbyists, and consultants who would slander any who did not affirm the Saudi line.
| If Biden talks to any intelligence professional or diplomat, he will hear two truths about Saudi Arabia | And likely in an effort to increase pressure on the US, Iran-aligned proxies at anti-ISIS coalition forces outside Erbil, Iraq — killing a Filipino contractor and injuring US troops — and near the US Embassy in Baghdad |
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| The lives of hundreds of thousands of children are now in Yemen, according to David Beasley, the head of the United Nations Food Programme | By virtue of its heft and its 75-year strategic relationship with the United States, the oil-rich monarchy has traditionally been granted a lot of slack in U |
The US often refers to the kingdom as a strategic partner because of its oil production, its status as a regional counterbalance to Iran and its counterterrorism cooperation.
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