Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

  • LONDON - JANUARY 27:Prince Andrew, Duke of York (R) greets Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud dduring a reception for the delegates of Afghanistan: The London Conference, at St James's Palace in London January 27, 2010. The conference on Afghanistan which only a week ago was seen as the political stunt of an enfeebled British government could now mark the beginning of the end of the war in Afghanistan.

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  • Misonix of Farmingdale announces Brazil distributor

    ...three-year Brazil agreement comes within weeks of Misonix signing new agreements for marketing and sales in Chile, Peru and Saudi Arabia , which were announced in January. Rio de Janeiro -based Neuro Orthopaedics Surgeries will distribute the company's SonaStar... |more

  • NATO chief: No plan to 'bribe' Taliban

    ...an Afghan plan to bring the insurgents over to the government's side.On Wednesday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai visited Saudi Arabia , hoping the kingdom would help persuade Taliban militants to take part in a negotiated settlement to the war. Saudi Arabia... |more

  • Iran prez says he seeks swap of prisoners with U.S.

    ...Iran issued a list of 11 Iranians it says are being held in the U.S., including a nuclear scientist who disappeared in Saudi Arabia and a former Defense Ministry official who vanished in Turkey. "I had said I would help in releasing them, but the attitude... |more

  • Afghan leader to talk reconciliation with Saudis

    (AP) â Afghan President Hamid Karzai is traveling to Saudi Arabia to discuss his reconciliation plan aimed at persuading Taliban militants to switch sides.Saudi Arabia was one of the few countries that recognized the Taliban regime before it was ousted |more

  • Yemen rejects rebels' cease-fire offer

    ...and the northern rebels, ferocious fighters who know the mountainous terrain better than the army, intensified in August. Saudi Arabia was drawn into the conflict in November after rebels crossed the border and killed two Saudi border guards.The Saudis, who... |more

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  • Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s acting president, in Abuja, Nigeria last November.
    Goodluck Jonathan Addresses Nigeria

    Pius Utomi Ekpei/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Goodluck Jonathan, who was appointed Nigeria’s acting president on Tuesday. As my colleague Adam Nossiter reports, on Tuesday Nigeria’s National Assembly made Vice President Goodluck Jonathan the 7:22 PM |more

  • Vice-president of Nigeria ratified as acting head of state

    ...until President Umaru Yar’Adua returns to the country. Mr Yar’Adua has not been seen since November 23rd, when he flew to Saudi Arabia to receive treatment for a heart condition. The move ends weeks of uncertainty in Africa’s most populous country, during... |more

  • Hillary Clinton
    Clinton Trip To Saudi Arabia Announced Via Twitter

    ...of the department's "Dipnote" Twitter feed were the first to get official word of Clinton's Feb. 13-16 trip to Qatar and Saudi Arabia shortly before 1:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday. That was well before the formal announcement, which was not expected until later... |more

  • Nigerian Lawmakers Name Acting President

    Nigeria's parliament says Vice President Goodluck Jonathan is the country's acting leader, more than ten weeks after President Umaru Yar'Adua left for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. Nigeria's Senate and House of Representatives Tuesday both passed |more

  • US State Dept: Secretary Clinton to Travel to Qatar and Saudi Arabia

    ...being hosted by the Qatari Government and the Saban Center on the evening of February 14. During her February 15-16 visit to Saudi Arabia, Secretary Clinton will meet with King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud as well as Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal. This... |more

About Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Arabic: المملكة العربية السعودية‎) is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula. It borders Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south, with the Persian Gulf to its northeast and the Red Sea to its west. It is called "the land of the two holy mosques", a reference to Mecca and Medina, Islam's two holiest places. In English, it is most commonly referred to as Saudi Arabia (pronounced /ˈsɒdɪ/ or /ˈsaudɪ əˈɹeɪ̯bɪə/), often as just Saudi by many English-speaking expatriates in the kingdom, or, less commonly (as in international football events or in its national press — as established by U.S. oil and defense industry interests) as KSA. Arabia is sometimes also used to refer to the nation, but the term can also refer to the entire peninsula and its varied nations, and sometimes the entire Arab world, and is thus ambiguous. The arabic short form is usually as-Sa'ūdiyyah / السعودية .

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