The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of more than 130 Abrams battle tanks, 20 armored recovery vehicles and other equipment, worth about $1.15 billion, to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
An investigative committee examining charges that the Saudi-led coalition fighting against Houthi rebels in Yemen has caused civilian casualties largely defended the coalition's actions.
A recently released Reuters poll of economists finds that non-oil business activity is slowing in the Gulf because of government austerity measures, causing some to revise their economic forecasts down for the region.
Saudi Aramco has named Ibrahim Al-Buainain as chief executive of its trading arm, the company said on Tuesday, as Al-Buainain's star continues to rise within the ranks of the energy giant.
Director of the CIA John Brennan said that Saudi Arabia is "among our closest counterterrorism partners" at an event at the Brookings Institution yesterday, according a report in Bloomberg.
