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Saudi Arabia's new king just snubbed Obama
The recently crowned king of Saudi Arabia is reportedly snubbing President Barack Obama to express his displeasure with the US' strengthening ties with Iran, according to The New York Times and The...
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Saudi Arabia has remained mostly untouched as the war in Yemen rages on
NAJRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Khatim Umm Salem's quiet, secure life betrays no signs of the war taking place just a few miles away.In the mornings, the elderly woman sits in front of a fan outside her...
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Saudi Arabia is sending the US a clear message about MidEast strategy
The Saudi king's absence from a regional summit to be hosted by President Barack Obama shows how Gulf states, displeased by what they see as U.S. indifference to Iranian meddling in the Arab world, may...
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Saudi Arabia just pumped a record amount of oil (USO, WTI, OIL, VDE)
Saudi Arabia pumped a record amount of crude oil last month.The world's largest oil exporter added 10.3 million barrels of oil per day, according to Reuters, citing a Gulf industry source.The source...
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Don't be fooled: The Saudi king snubbed Obama
King Salman's decision not to come to Washington this week for the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) summit is a very deliberate signal of his lack of confidence in American policy in the Middle East.The...
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Obama is gambling that the Iran nuclear negotiations won't alienate America's...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama may fail to pacify Gulf Arab fears over his Iran nuclear diplomacy at a summit this week, following a pointed Saudi snub of the event. But a bigger...
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Iran to Saudis: You cannot inspect the military-escorted ship we're sending...
Iran will not allow Saudi-led naval forces to inspect a cargo ship bound for Yemen under military escort, foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said, in a challenge to the kingdom's control of...
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Iran warns the Saudi coalition that blocking an aid ship bound for Yemen will...
A senior Iranian military official has warned the Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemeni rebels that blocking an Iranian aid ship bound for Yemen will "spark a fire," as a five-day humanitarian...
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Obama just made his clearest statement yet on Iran's support of terrorism
President Barack Obama has called Iran a "state sponsor of terrorism" as top Western officials continue negotiations with the Iranian regime over the country's nuclear program, according to an English...
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Saudi Arabia is tightening the screws on US shale
According to OPEC’s latest monthly oil report, Saudi Arabia boosted its oil output to 10.31 million barrels per day in April, a slight increase over the previous month’s total of 10.29 million barrels....
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The King of Saudi Arabia skipped Obama's Camp David summit — to meet with...
While Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and deputy crown prince headed to America for a summit with President Barack Obama and other officials from the Persian Gulf states, King Salman stayed home,...
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Obama made an embarrassing gaffe during a meeting with top Saudi leaders
Yesterday President Obama greeted the No. 2 and No. 3 officials of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office.Obviously, US-Saudi relations are not in good shape, as we learned from the refusal of King Salman to...
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The Saudis just went nuclear on their Obama snub
President Barack Obama's summit with Arab leaders doesn't seem to be going as planned.First, King Salman of Saudi Arabia embarrassed the Obama administration when he backed out of the summit after the...
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France looks like a big winner of Obama's Persian Gulf woes
While a rift grows between the US and the Persian Gulf states, France is forging lucrative economic deals with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the New York Times reported this week.The Gulf states' ire stems...
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Saudi Arabia has made the situation in Yemen so much worse
The five-day ceasefire that went into effect late Tuesday night followed more than six weeks of Saudi-led bombing in Yemen targeting the Houthis, a local Zeydi Shia rebel group that has steadily gained...
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The meeting at Camp David today is going to be really awkward
Saudi Arabia and Iran don't like each other.This is well established.Saudi Arabia is the largest Sunni power in the region. Iran is the largest Shia power in the region. And pretty much every other...
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The US missile shield promise to the Gulf will take serious work
A U.S.-supplied missile shield to protect Gulf nations against Iranian attacks will take years to complete, requiring a step-up in regional trust, more U.S. sales of sensitive weapons, and intensive...
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Obama's Camp David summit with Persian Gulf leaders was a failure
If you’re keeping score in the contest between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu, then chalk up a win for the Israeli prime minister this week. President Obama is convening his summit with...
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Iran is challenging Saudi Arabia in the waters off Yemen
An Iranian cargo ship carrying aid and activists crossed into the Gulf of Aden on Sunday and will reach Yemen's Hodaida port on May 21, Iranian media reported, in a challenge to Saudi-led naval forces...
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Saudi Arabia ramps up war on the US shale gas industry
The Middle East's OPEC oil cartel just ramped up its war on the US shale gas industry as new data from Saudi Arabia shows that oil exports in March reached their highest level in 12 years, with...
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