How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy ...

[IBN SAUD is King of the Hejaz, which includes Mecca and Medina, and of Nejd, his dominions as a whole embracing the entire area of Desert Arabia. — THE EDITOR] I CALL him my friend, although he ...

King Ibn Saud had 22 wives, though reportedly never more than four at a time. The founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

In 1950, the US and Saudi Arabia had begun an uneasy relationship based on oil and regional security, but a secret trip by President Truman's personal physician to treat the Saudi monarch drew ...

Ibn Saud now finds himself in a position in which he is unable either to stop further progress of the Ekhwan or to abide by the pledges that he has made to the British. As late as May 20, 1927, Ibn ...

Now, Ibn Saud's grandchildren are themselves willing to openly accept Israel, without preconditions. And the question is whether Joe Biden will act as Donald Trump did, and follow their lead.

Ibn Saud, who ruled from his teenage years until his death aged 88 in 1953, was succeeded by his son Saud from his second wife. In 2005, the new Saudi King Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz receives ...

Emir Ibn Saud, Sheik of Dariyah, Sovereign Lord of Nejd and Hasa, descendant of Mohammed Ibn Saud (founder of the Wahabite Empire), had declared war on Husein Ibn Ali, King of Hejaz.

Starting from scratch 31 years ago, Ibn Saud has successfully bluffed the British, reduced hostile cities by siege after bloody siege (in 1924-25 he besieged Medina, where Mohammed lies buried ...