The ink on the multi-decade US–Saudi civil nuclear cooperation agreement had barely dried in Washington when the architecture of modern Middle Eastern diplomacy was abruptly and violently upended. …

The Israelis had their jaws dropping and dragging on the grounds. The Saudis were cock-a-hoop. The Trump administration remains, as it always does, streaky and fickle. The…

Saudi Arabia has made Palestinian statehood a non-negotiable condition for normalising with Israel, and demanding Riyadh reverse it for a nuclear deal risks weakening US influence

Last week, the US and Saudi Arabia reached a pivotal civil nuclear agreement that strays from US non-proliferation norms, conflicting with its stance on Iran. This potentially…

The US thrusts Abraham Accords on Saudi Arabia