How Prince Saud al-Faisal artfully shaped the complex U.S.-Saudi relationship

It was a measure of Prince Saud al-Faisal’s skill as a diplomat that he helped sustain the long friendship between the United States and Saudi Arabia through events that could have (maybe should have) shattered it—an oil embargo, several Arab-Israeli wars, the rise of Al Qaeda, the failed U.S. occupation of Iraq, and the menace of Iran.Read full article >>