Abdullah is said to have been so furious with Obama that he reportedly had a heart attack.

US Trident test shows Gulf region it has a US umbrella against Iranian nuclear attack.

At the beginning of December, Washington warned Jerusalem and Cairo of a planned major al Qaeda attack in one of their cities - possibly even with chemical weapons. In addition, the Americans and the British warned Israel and Egypt to beware of large-scale maritime strikes in the Mediterranean, Gulf of Aqaba ...

Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's decision to shut Prince Sultan air base east of Riyadh to US forces - and the manner in which the US evacuation was carried out -are a landmark in the oil kingdom's history. Never before has Saudi Arabia taken sole charge of its own security ...

25 June: The Saudis are taking up the cudgel for their affronted sovereignty against a 46-count indictment issued by the US federal grand jury on June 21, five years after the truck bombing at the Khobar Towers apartment building in Dahran, Saudi Arabia, that killed 10 American airmen and wounded ...