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  • Saudi Ambassador to the US Prince Khalid Bin Salman Visits CENTCOM in Florida
     

    Saudi Ambassador to the United States Prince Khalid bin Salman visited the US Central Command (CENTCOM) headquarters in Tampa, Florida this week to meet with top U.S. military officials and Saudi officers stationed at the facility, Arab News reports. The Ambassador, a former F-15 pilot and tactical intelligence officer in the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF), held […]

     
  • Report Says U.S., Saudi Arabia Officials Working Closely on Ongoing Economic, Security Cooperation
     

    U.S. government teams spent three days in Saudi Arabia discussing ways to cut off money flows to Iran without disrupting energy markets, Bloomberg reports, ahead of U.S. efforts to press nations to stop buying Iranian oil by Nov. 4. The report, which cited a senior State Department official, said that envoys from the State and Treasury departments and […]

     
  • Exclusive: Engineering Giant Bechtel Launches New Women’s Empowerment Program in Saudi Arabia
     

    Global engineering and procurement giant Bechtel Corporation will launch a new pioneering program for women’s empowerment in Saudi Arabia, set to be announced this month and rolled out this fall, SUSTG has learned. Working with Al Khaleej Training and Education organization, the program aims to increase women’s participation in the country’s workforce through training and […]

     
  • Saudi, UAE, Kuwait to Support Bahrain Economy after Downturn
     

    Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates will soon announce an “integrated program” to support Bahrain’s economic reforms and its fiscal stability, Reuters reports, citing a joint statement from the three Gulf states on Tuesday. Like other oil producing nations whose state finances are closely tied to oil prices, Bahrain’s economy was hit hard […]

     
  • Saudi Women Take the Wheel as Kingdom Marches to More Vibrant Society
     

    Saudi women exercised their new legal right to drive across the Kingdom for the first time in decades this weekend, with many taking to social media to document their experience. The new law allowing women to drive took effect on June 24th, with some newly licensed women drivers in the kingdom doing so right at […]

     
  • Potentially Lucrative Decision for Saudi Arabia on MSCI Inclusion Today
     

    Saudi Arabia will hear news regarding its inclusion into MSCI, Inc.’s highly sought-after emerging market index. The announcement is expected at 4:30pm today on the U.S. East coast, or 23:30 tonight in Riyadh. As Bloomberg writes, the Kingdom’s path toward potential inclusion in the index began three years ago with a concerted effort toward more transparent […]

     
  • Report: Trump Requested Saudi Oil Support Before Iran Nuclear Decision
     

    A day before President Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, one of his senior officials phoned key ally Saudi Arabia to ask the world’s largest oil exporter to help keep prices stable if the decision disrupted supply, Reuters reports. As Reuters reports, although the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are close allies, rarely has the United States put […]

     
  • Saudi, Russia Say Oil Supply to Increase in ‘Near Future’ as Consumers Eye Increasing Prices
     

    Saudi Minister of Energy Khalid Al-Falih said OPEC and other producers are likely to gradually revive oil output in the second half of the year to ease consumer anxiety as prices trade near $80 a barrel, according to reports. The action would be a reverse of course from previous OPEC and non-OPEC producers’ decision two years […]

     
  • Will Trump’s JCPoA Decision Affect U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Talks?
     

    President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the so-called Iran deal may have an effect on the ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, according to analysts, as Energy Secretary Rick Perry hopes to steer Saudi nuclear negotiators into an “acceptable 123 agreement with additional protocols.” The U.S. is hoping to position Westinghouse among […]

     
  • Saudi Arabia Applauds Trump Decision on Iran Nuclear Deal
     

    Saudi Arabia has embraced President Trump’s decision yesterday to pull the United States out of the JCPoA, the agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions by offering sanctions relief in exchange for Iran’s compliance with non-proliferation standards, according to statements made by top Saudi officials and the Saudi Press Agency. As the chief rival of Iran in […]

     

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  • U.S. becomes top LNG exporter in first half of 2022 – EIA

    U.S. LNG exports rose 12% to average 11.2 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) in the first half of the year compared with the second half of 2021, the EIA said. Increased LNG export capacity, higher prices, and demand, particularly from Europe, helped boost exports

  • Opinion: China Won’t Replace the U.S. as the Middle East Hegemon

    On the security side, China has similarly begun greater engagement, contributing more than 1,800 troops to U.N. peacekeeping missions in and around the region as of 2020 (419 in Lebanon, 370 in Sudan, and 1,072 in South Sudan). The Chinese Navy has also participated in maritime security missions in the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden and built its first overseas military base in Djibouti in 2017. There was even a suggestion that Beijing might be building a secret military base at a port in the strategically critical United Arab Emirates.

  • U.S. State Department OKs potential sale of C-17 aircraft support to UAE -Pentagon

    The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of C-17 aircraft sustainment and related equipment to the United Arab Emirates for an estimated cost of $980.4 million, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. Despite approval by the State Department, the notification does not indicate that a contract has been signed or that negotiations have concluded.

  • Will the Saudis help the U.S. beat Huawei?

    The 5G and 6G technology at the heart of the new U.S.–Saudi partnership could someday power all kinds of equipment. “The intention is to scale it to applications built on 5G which could include, for example, remote management of devices in the energy grid,” said the senior administration official.

  • Will the Saudis help the U.S. beat Huawei?

    One of the agreements is a cybersecurity partnership between CISA, the FBI and Saudi Arabia’s National Cybersecurity Authority. But the other — a deal between the U.S. and Saudi telecom agencies to foster private-sector collaboration on the rollout of 5G networks — could give the U.S. a boost in its battle with China over the security of next-generation telecom networks.

  • Yellen vows tough U.S. measures against countries abusing economic order

    "Economic integration has been weaponised by Russia," she said, calling for all responsible countries to unite in opposition to Russia's war in Ukraine. The United States is pushing for increased trade ties with South Korea and other trusted allies to improve the resilience of supply chains, and avert possible manipulation by geopolitical rivals, Yellen told Reuters on Monday.

  • Putin visits Iran for first trip outside former U.S.S.R. since Ukraine war

    Just three days after U.S. President Joe Biden finished a visit to Saudi Arabia, Russia's paramount leader arrives in Tehran to hold his fifth meeting with Khamenei, Iran's second supreme leader who came to power in 1989. "The contact with Khamenei is very important," Yuri Ushakov, Putin's foreign policy adviser, told reporters in Moscow. "A trusting dialogue has developed between them on the most important issues on the bilateral and international agenda."

  • U.S., Saudi Arabia agree on stopping Iran getting nuclear weapons

    The United states and Saudi Arabia agreed on the importance of stopping Iran from "acquiring a nuclear weapon", during a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden, a joint statement carried by the Saudi state news agency (SPA) said. The statement said Biden also affirmed the United States’ continued commitment to supporting "Saudi Arabia’s security and territorial defense, and facilitating the Kingdom’s ability to obtain necessary capabilities to defend its people and territory against external threats."

  • On Khashoggi killing, Saudi prince says U.S. also made mistakes

    Jubeir, talking to Reuters about Friday's conversation between the two leaders, said the crown prince had made the case that trying to impose values by force on other countries could backfire. "It has not worked when the U.S. tried to impose values on Afghanistan and Iraq. In fact, it backfired. It does not work when people try to impose values by force on other countries," Jubeir quoted the prince, known as MbS, as telling Biden.

  • The Jerusalem U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Joint Declaration

    The United States further affirms the commitment to work together with other partners to confront Iran’s aggression and destabilizing activities, whether advanced directly or through proxies and terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.