The U.S. and Saudi Arabia in the Middle East: An Alliance of Competing Powers, Too Risky to Break?

... many decades this approach suited both parties in that convoluted Middle Eastern system that operates to a brutal but still clear-cut ... ....66 billion. EPA/YOUSSEF BADAWI Boris Dolgov, Omar Mahmood: The Syrian Conflict: Russian and GCC Perspectives The U.S. allies largely ... ... American support for Saudi armed action against the Houthi in Yemen. In this context, the Senate’s recent decision to ... ... the State Department laconically responding “the Saudi refusal is their own business.” However, analysts believe that ...