Bush administration tells Congress of arms sale to Saudis
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The Bush administration said on Monday it had notified Congress of plans to sell Saudi Arabia a package of advanced arms in what officials have described as an effort to counter growing Iranian military clout.
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President Bush said today the United States and its allies have an "urgent" need to build a missile defense system in Europe to protect against ballistic missile launches from such states as Iran, and he called on Congress to stop efforts to cut funding for key components of the program.
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President Bush delivered a sophisticated weapons sale for Saudi Arabia on Monday, trying to bolster defenses against threats from U.S. adversary Iran and muster support in this oil-rich kingdom for a long-stalled Mideast peace agreement.
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah hosts George W. Bush at his desert playground on Tuesday when the U.S. president will get a taste of how the royals live in the world's richest oil-producing monarchy.
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During a visit to Saudi Arabia, President Bush urged OPEC to consider the impact high oil prices were having on the American economy, and promised to discuss the issue with the Saudi king.
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At least one gunman was killed by Saudi security forces when US consulate in the Red Sea city of Jeddah came under attack Monday, the Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV reported.
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In an unusual censure of a key ally in the war on terrorism, the Bush administration on Wednesday accused Saudi Arabia of "particularly severe violations" of religious freedom.
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Using money, weapons or its oil power, Saudi Arabia will intervene to prevent Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias from massacring Iraqi Sunni Muslims once the United States begins pulling out of Iraq, a security adviser to the Saudi government said on Wednesday.
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The U.S. government is on its way to  brokering about $20 billion in arms sales in the fiscal year  that began October 1, steady with last year's near-record  total, the Pentagon official responsible for such sales said on  Monday.
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The Indian leadership today told the visiting US Defence Secretary, Mr Donald Rumsfeld, that the American arms sales to Pakistan could impact the positive sentiment and goodwill for the USA in India.
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The Bush administration moved Tuesday to block the assets of two Saudi men accused of providing support to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network, Adel Batterjee and Saad al-Faqih.
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President Bush, on his first visit to this oil-rich kingdom, delivered a major arms sale Monday to its ally in a region where the U.S. casts neighboring Iran as a menacing threat
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell says he hopes to be able to remove Saudi Arabia from the State Department list of religiously intolerant countries.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 15 -- President Bush on Monday launched a rare round of intensive personal diplomacy with Saudi King Abdullah aimed at winning support for a variety of American objectives such as rebuilding Iraq, pressuring Iran, fighting al-Qaeda and backing the U.S.-brokered peace ta...
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The Bush administration will ask the U.S. Congress next week for $70 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and related operations for part of the 2009 fiscal year, the Pentagon said on Monday.
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In an unusual censure of a key ally in the war on terrorism, the Bush administration yesterday accused Saudi Arabia of &quot;particularly severe violations&quot; of religious freedom.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States for the first time named Saudi Arabia yesterday as a country that severely violates religious freedom, potentially subjecting the close US ally to sanctions.