He is the author of the Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (1998), Bin Laden, Islam and America’s New “War on Terrorism” (2002), and The Battle for Saudi Arabia (2004). ..…

Political Islam would have had much more difficulty in moving out from the borders of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan without the continual, powerful, and resolute support of the United States. Saudi Arabian society had not even begun its move out of tradition when petroleum was..…

Funeral ceremony for some of the children killed by Saudi air strike Yemen While both Houthis and the coalition take actions with destructive consequences for Yemen's, the overwhelming blame for the devastation and the humanitarian crisis lies with United States, Saudi Arabia and..…

Commenting on this, Lendman said, “Kerry, like he always does, has made a baseless and inflammatory accusation against Russia and the Syrian government, basically accusing them of the crimes America commits in Syria, along with ISIS [Daesh], al-Nusra and other terrorists America and its rogue..…

Rizk: Well I believe that The New York Times has very solid information as we understood because we know inevitably with no doubt that the groups or the so-called Takfiri groups and most of the so-called oppositions, not only in Jordan, in many places elsewhere -- but now particularly we are talking about..…

We reaffirm our calls on the Government of Saudi Arabia to respect and protect human rights, says Kirby, spokesman for US State Department The United States has called on Saudi Arabia to have fair judicial proceedings and respect human rights after Riyadh executed Shia Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and 46 other..…

Back March, McCain read into Saudi Arabia's Yemen signal that the in the region no longer have confidence or are willing to work with United States of America. ( Of course, conservatives have also taken President Obama to task for showing too much respect for Saudi Arabia. ... Summing..…

neither United States Saudi Arabia is party to Rome Statute for International Criminal Court, that statute sets forth aider and liability provisions. ... In return, Saudi Arabia became America's most dependable filling station, supplier of intelligence, and..…

Syrians have reached the conclusion that US Saudi Gulf State proxy war to upend Assad has failed that their country will burn down to the waterline before Assad ever leaves that peace will not return before their children are grown up and that even if peace does come there will be nothing..…

To contain Iran's rise, both Bush and Obama turned to America's Sunni allies, particularly Saudi Arabia, to create bulwark against the so-called. ..…

Less than a year into the uprising, pressures from Saudi Crown Prince Abdallah—in the form of tearful pleas for America to restrain Israel and a secret letter that, Abrams writes, “put US-Saudi relations in the balance”—led the US to endorse Palestinian statehood. ..…

Smith, in Riyadh last May, he couldn’t have been clearer about the US–Saudi relationship: the three pillars, he said, are oil security, stability, and counterterrorism; pressure on human rights and political change were unproductive. ... See Madawi Al-Rasheed, “No Saudi Spring:..…