By Tom Rivers London 29 October 2007 On the eve of his historic visit to Britain, Saudi King Abdullah says London is not doing enough to combat terrorism and in an exclusive interview with the BBC, he criticized the then government of Tony Blair for...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 19 March 2007 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has praised a five-year old Saudi Arabian peace proposal as a pillar in the search for Middle East peace. The Saudi plan is to be discussedlater this month at an Arab s...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 13 March 2007 Israel is signaling a new willingness to open peace talks on the basis of a Saudi Arabian initiative first proposed five years ago. But as Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israel sees the pla...
By Leslie Boctor Cairo 04 March 2007 The leaders of Saudi Arabia and Iran have agreed to work together to end Saudi King Abdulla bin Abdul Aziz, stands right, as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, greets Saudi officials in Riyadh, 3 March 2007 se...
By Meredith Buel Washington 27 October 2006 The United States says it is ready to help Saudi Arabia defend its oil facilities against terrorist threats, following a statement by the British navy asking merchant shippers to be on alert for suspicious...
By Meredith Buel Washington 04 October 2006 Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, Prince Turki al-Faisal, is urging the Bush administration to get more involved in the Middle East peace process and to persuade Israel to resume negotiations...
By Paula Wolfson White House 23 July 2006 President Bush met privately at the White House Sunday with top Saudi diplomats as the search continues for a formula to end the bloodshed between Israeli and Lebanese-based Hezbollah militants. The meeting...
By Paula Wolfson Washington 23 July 2006 President Bush steps off Marine One as he leaves Waco after spending the weekend at his ranch in Texas President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are meeting with Saudi officials to discuss ways t...
By Sonja Pace Jeddah 31 May 2006 In public, they are clad in black from head to toe, they cannot vote and they cannot drive - that is the state of Saudi Arabia's women. But, on a visit to the Saudi cities of Riyadh and Jeddah, VOA's Sonja Pace found...
By Teresa Sullivan Washington 25 May 2006 A private research group in Washington says religious textbooks in Saudi Arabia, despite revisions, continue to teach intolerance and violence. Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance The Washington-based C...