Anwar Eshki, a retired major general in the Saudi armed forces, and Dore Gold, a former Ambassador and close to Israeli PM Netanyahu shared a stage at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. “We’re both allies of the United States,” Gold said, as he hoped for greater cooperation.
Bloomberg's Grant Smith and Maher Chmaytelli write that Saudi Arabia will continue to push for high output levels in order to beat back U.S. shale, and will have OPEC backing to do it.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir has joined Twitter, announcing through his first Tweet: “This is the official and only account for Saudi Foreign Minister H.E. Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir,” which followed an earlier Arabic version of the tweet.
A press release issued today from the Saudi Embassy in Washington confirmed that Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Naif will attend this Month's US-GCC summit, as King Salman remains in Saudi Arabia due to the impending humanitarian cease-fire in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir and Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Thursday a proposal for a 5-day ceasefire in Yemen to conduct humanitarian missions in a joint press conference in Riyadh.
One of Saudi Arabia's leading national challenges is soaring energy consumption. A new research paper by Samar Khan, Hafez Abdo, and Abdulrahman Al-Ghabban takes a look at consumer awareness of energy usage.