Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel
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The first in-person meeting of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders since the recent US-Israel-Iran war kicked off in Saudi Arabia's port city of Jeddah on Tuesday, Saudi media Al Arabiya News reported.
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Saudi Arabia moves to reclaim Lebanon from Iran's shadow — but the ceasefire it helped build is already fraying
By Ben Aris in Berlin Saudi Arabia has launched its most intensive diplomatic engagement with Lebanon in years, deploying a royal envoy to Beirut, coordinating with Washington on ceasefire terms and invoking a 35-year-old Saudi-brokered accord as the political framework for eventually disarming Hezbollah.
A different question, though, is whether this war will be remembered as an inflection point for Israel in its relationship with the United States. For now, the war seems to have accelerated the broad anti-Israel shift in American public opinion,
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia and seven other Arab and Islamic countries condemned Israeli occupation authorities' continued closure of the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Haram Sharif in Jerusalem to Muslim worshipers particularly during the holy month of Ramadan.
Trump singled out Prince Mohammed during a speech at a Saudi-hosted investment conference in Miami on Friday. Initially, he praised the Saudi royal along with other Gulf leaders, describing him as a “great friend”, a “winner” and a “warrior”.