List of Saudi Arabia articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.N. Envoy Signals That Riyadh Is Obstructing Syria Peace Talks
Saudi Arabia is sidelining the diplomat charged with ending the brutal Syrian civil war — and complicating the push toward a deal.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Don’t Blame China for Plunging Oil Prices
Like other markets buffeted by Chinese economic headwinds, the oil market is in free-fall. But China’s slowdown isn’t really doing much to dampen its thirst for oil.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Tyranny of Distance
25 years after Desert Storm, America still hasn’t learned why it’s so difficult to win wars overseas.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 This Tiny African Nation Just Cut Ties With Tehran. It Also Used to Be an Iranian Trading Post.
Comoros's rich yet little-known historical links with Iran haven't stopped it from joining Saudi Arabia's campaign to isolate Tehran.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Saudi-Iran War Is America’s Fault
And now it’s Washington’s job to make sure it doesn’t spin out of control.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The IPO to End All IPOs?
Oil is at its lowest price in a decade. So why is Saudi Arabia selling off part of its trillion-dollar oil company?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Would a Saudi-Iran War Look Like? Don’t look now, but it is already here
When asked to address the question of what a Saudi-Iran war would look like, my first instinct is to ask the reader to look around because it is already happening. As the futurist William Gibson noted, 'the future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.'
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The World’s Most Misunderstood Martyr
The execution of Nimr al-Nimr has brought the Middle East to a boiling point. But his beliefs were more complicated than anyone will admit.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.N. Chief to U.S.-Backed Saudi Air Coalition: You May Be Committing War Crimes in Yemen
The U.N. has asked Yemen to reverse its decision to expel a top U.N. human rights official after cluster-bomb complaints.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What are the Saudis up to with those executions? Regional dominance
Saudi Arabia had a difficult year.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Fear and Loathing in Saudi Arabia
Saudi royals are scared about everything from the rise of Iran to the drop in oil prices. And Washington telling them to calm down only makes them angrier.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Next Front in the Saudi-Iran War
The two regional powers are at each other's throats. But Riyadh's next move won't be in Syria or Yemen -- it'll aim to hit Tehran where it really hurts.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Oil Prices Have Hit a 10-Year Low. They’re Not Going to Stay There.
With demand still growing and output finally shrinking, today’s cheap oil could nearly triple in price in coming years.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How America Contributed to the Saudi-Iran Flare-Up
Did the Obama administration spur the latest spat between Riyadh and Tehran?
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Iraqi Shiite fighters from the Popular Mobilisation units deploy in the city of Baiji, north of Tikrit, as they fight alongside Iraqi forces against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group to try to retake the strategic town for a second time, on June 9, 2015. Baghdad regained control of Baiji -- located on the road to IS hub Mosul and near the country's largest oil refinery -- last year, but subsequently lost it again. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read ) This Map Explains the Saudi-Iran Proxy War
Here's what the region's geopolitical and sectarian divides look like.
