WASHINGTON: With two high-level visits in less than a month, the United States is hoping to steady ties with Saudi Arabia after several years of disagreement and deepening mistrust. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will arrive for meetings with officials of the world's largest oil exporter next week, t
WASHINGTON: With two high-level visits in less than a month, the United States is hoping to steady ties with Saudi Arabia after several years of disagreement and deepening mistrust.
He will contend with a US-Saudi relationship battered by disputes over Iran and journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder and weakened by the fading of an oil-for-security bargain that has united the allies for decades.
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