A recent meeting in the Saint Petersburg forum between Russia and Saudi Arabia seem to indicate that they are cooperating, while vying for a large expansion in their business areas.
The government of Kuwait has identified the suspect in the country's worst terrorist attack as a citizen of Saudi Arabia.
A bomb has exploded at a Shia mosque in the predominantly Sunni nation of Saudi Arabia, suggesting that the sectarian warfare that has engulfed the region may soon overwhelm one of the Arab world's most stable countries.
Saudi Arabia's orgy of executions has shot up, so it is advertising for more executioners.
Saudi Arabia, one of the world's most repressive regimes, is looking to hire as many as eight new executioners to behead and dismember people found guilty of various crimes.
The Royal Moroccan Air Force says that it has lost one its F-16 fighter jets participating in a Saudi Arabia-led bombing campaign in Yemen.
The US government has said it will investigate claims that a coalition airstrike in Syria killed 52 civilians.
The US government is stepping up its involvement in the conflict in Yemen, which had previously been limited to logistical support.
Saudi Arabia has begun airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen as a Saudi invasion of that country becomes more and more likely.
Saudi Arabia has moved troops and military equipment to its border with Yemen, suggesting the oil rich kingdom may soon intervene in that country's political situation, which have been chaotic and kinetic since a group of rebels known as Houthis overthrew the previous government.
In his usual Clinton-bashing style, Senator Rand Paul accused her of "duplicity" for accepting Saudi donations.
The new King of Saudi Arabia, King Salman, has begun a massive spending spree in an effort to shore up political support and make a strong first impression on the population he now rules over.
The remains of the king Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is temporarily placed in the Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Grand Mosque in Riyadh with the thousands of mourners paying tribute to the late King. To replace his throne is his half brother, King Salman.
King Abdullah, leader of Saudi Arabia, one of the world's most repressive regimes, has passed away at the age of 90.
As prices of oil continue to drop, the Obama Administration threw a bone to domestic oil producers by allowing the export of lightly refined oil collected in the United States, reversing a ban on oil exports in place since the 1970s.
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