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  • Opinion: Biden’s America and MBS’s Saudi Arabia: Is Diplomacy Possible?

    Instead of a sweeping rebuke, perhaps an acknowledgement of the heinous crime without the excoriation of the U.S.’ most valuable ally in the Muslim-majority world, would have been more astute. This is a region where memories are measured by the reigns of monarchs and time dates back to the Hijra, the Prophet Mohammed’s divinely ordained decampment from Mecca, in the year 622 of the modern era.

  • Saudi Arabia Lifts Travel Ban to Turkey Ahead of Crown Prince MBS Visit

    Saudi Arabia ended a ban on travel to Turkey on Monday, re-opening a major channel for tourism and investment ahead of a visit by the crown prince to help repair ties. Saudi citizens will once again be allowed to travel to Turkey, Ethiopia, Vietnam and India, the Interior Ministry said, linking the decision to developments in the pandemic. Travel to Turkey and several other countries was prohibited for Saudi nationals during the Covid-19 health emergency, with the threat of a three-year ban on foreign travel for violators. The decision coincided with a period of particularly tense relations between the two regional powers.

  • MbS to embark on first major extra-regional tour since 2018

    Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MbS) is set to embark on his first major extra-regional tour since 2018. MbS will reportedly travel to Egypt, Algeria, Cyprus, and Greece next month. As part of the tour, he will also travel to Turkey in a sign of warming relations between the two regional powerhouses. This comes amid speculations of an upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia in late June by US President Joe Biden.

  • Saudi-US consultations pave the way for possible Biden-MbS meeting

    Saudi Arabia and the United States are stepping up their engagement amid soaring global energy prices. Saudi Deputy Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman Al Saud (KbS) has paid a visit to the US in an effort to reset the bilateral relationship. Meanwhile, US officials are reportedly visiting Saudi Arabia for talks on oil production, normalization steps with Israel and a possible trip by US President Joe Biden.

  • Biden Pick for Saudi Ambassador Likely to Anger MBS: Ex-Official

    David Schenker, who served as assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department from 2019 to January 2021, told Insider of Ratney: "He's a very capable diplomat, he served in positions of importance, requited himself well, and is held in high regard."

  • Saudi’s MbS will eventually take Biden’s call

    Crude prices have spiked 20% since Russia invaded Ukraine last month. That’s partly due to sanctions as well as a broader wariness from oil buyers. Though the United States produced 11.2 million daily barrels of crude oil in 2021, it will struggle to fully replace the more than 4 million barrels a day previously exported by Russia. Saudi, which in 2021 pumped 9.1 million daily barrels, has the capacity to help.

  • Opinion: Biden Will Have to Work With Saudi Prince MBS, Like It or Not

    It’s not hard to see why Biden has failed to take MBS down a peg. For one thing, plenty of other world leaders — including China’s Xi Jinping, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Russia’s Vladimir Putin — have been perfectly happy to pay court to the prince. For another, Biden’s disfavor has cost MBS nothing, politically or economically. His power in the palace is undiminished and soaring oil prices have put more money in his pocket.

  • 4,500-year-old highway network lined with ancient tombs found in Saudi Arabia

    "The people, who live in these areas, have known about them for thousands of years. "But I think it wasn't really known until we got satellite imagery that just how widespread they are," researcher Matthew Dalton told CNN.

  • Mysterious ancient tombs reveal 4,500-year-old highway network in northwest Arabia

    The existence of the funerary avenues suggests that complex social horizons existed 4,500 years ago across a huge swath of the Arabian Peninsula. The finding adds to the steady progress by archaeologists working under the auspices of RCU in understanding the hidden story of the ancient kingdoms and earlier societies of north Arabia.

  • Saudi coalition says it strikes military camp in Sanaa, Houthis say bombs hit prison

    The coalition said it destroyed seven drone and weapons stores at the camp, Saudi state TV reported, adding it was in response to an armed drone launched from north Yemen towards Saudi's Red Sea region of Jizan.