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Tehran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi visits Saudi Arabia for the first time after Iran’s 12-day war with Israel.
RIYADH: Iran’s foreign minister has held talks with Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, the Saudi foreign ministry said, two ...
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in Jeddah on Tuesday, in the first visit by the Iranian official to the Gulf kingdom since Tehran's air war ...
The meeting in Mecca comes as Saudi Arabia steps up its diplomatic engagement with key global powers with the aim of managing ...
Saudi Arabia is quietly reasserting itself in Lebanon’s political file, amid renewed regional interest in stabilising the country’s fragile institutions and restoring state sovereignty. Last week, ...
Just weeks before Hamas launched its October 7 attack on Israel, Saudi Arabia said it was inching closer to normalizing diplomatic ties with the Jewish state. Despite three months of war that have ...
A core misconception about Israel’s policy since Oct. 7 is that the country has favored military action at the expense of ...
Iran is effectively out of the game. So President Donald Trump now has a chance to broker a Palestinian state and bring peace to the region.
Diplomacy often takes the form of staged meetings and statements whose plain meanings differ from what the country’s leaders ...
Here’s what to know about the state of Israel–Saudi Arabia relations, why MBS is pushing for them to change, and how the issue speaks to deeper fissures in Saudi Arabia’s society: ...
Although a wartime unity government in Israel would “be more able and more desperate to secure a deal with Saudi Arabia, it’s hard to imagine that even M.B.S.’ absolute rule can withstand ...
Saudi Arabia has warned Israel that a planned invasion of the city of Rafah may cause an imminent humanitarian disaster. The oil-rich nation’s foreign ministry released a statement on Saturday ...