Official: Saudis to open embassy in Iraq
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Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Wednesday that the kingdom soon will open an embassy in Baghdad for the first time since Saddam Hussein's 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, a step the U.S. has pressed the Saudis to take.
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Gunmen attacked the US Consulate in Saudi Arabia&#39;s second-largest city, Jeddah, an American embassy spokeswoman in the capital, Riyadh, said.
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Saudi Arabia has warned it could decide to provide financial support to Iraqi Sunnis if the U.S. pulls its troops out of Iraq, where sectarian violence between the minority Sunnis and majority Iraqi Shiites has threatened to tear apart the country, The New York Times reported.
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Iraq will re-open its borders with Iran and Syria, closed earlier this week in the initial stages of a security crackdown, a spokesman for the officer overseeing the plan said on Saturday.
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RIYADH - The spectacular attack against the US consulate in Jeddah, claimed by the local branch of the Al Qaeda network, came to the backdrop of rising anti-American sentiment in Saudi Arabia, fueled by the ongoing conflict in Iraq.
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia  - Saudi Arabia tried Tuesday  to discover how militants penetrated the elaborate defenses of  a U.S. consulate in what al Qaeda said was a reprisal for last  month's U.S. assault on Falluja in Iraq.
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U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker says he wants the Iraqis to solve their own problems Caption: America's top diplomat in Baghdad (right) gets a military escort in April.
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MANAMA: The Gulf Cooperation Council conference opens Monday amid an increasingly unstable security situation in Iraq and a trade disagreement between Saudi Arabia, its largest member, and
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Saudi Arabia's royal family and government leaders are deeply divided over how to handle the growing crisis in Iraq and other looming Mideast problems like Iran, with some favoring strong aid to fellow Sunnis and others more cautious.
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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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SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt -- Iraqi officials rejected Arab criticism of US actions in their country, as an international conference on Iraq&#39;s future opened Monday.
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Saudi Arabia is pushing ahead with plans to build a fence to block terrorists from crossing its 560-mile border with Iraq &#151; another sign of growing alarm that Sunni-Shiite strife could spill over and drag Iraq's neighbors into its civil conflict.
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The attack this week on the U.S. consulate in Jiddah could be followed by more terror attacks in Saudi Arabia, a worried State Department said Tuesday.
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Pro-Western Gulf Arab states meeting for a summit in Bahrain hope that Iraq&#39;s elections will produce a broad-based government, their host said Monday.
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A senior Saudi official rejected on Friday a suggestion that his government was lax in pursuing Saudi nationals who provide money to Iraqi insurgents or terrorist groups.
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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has warned Vice President Dick Cheney that Saudi Arabia would back the Sunnis if the United States pulls out of Iraq, according to a senior American official.
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Senior Iraqi ministers will go to Iran   on Tuesday, officials said, possibly paving the way for a first   official visit as prime minister by Nuri al-Maliki to Iraq's   powerful Shi'ite neighbor.