Riyadh plans to take a leading role in post-war Gaza and help to disarm and marginalize the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, according to a report.

Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich has rejected Saudi Arabia’s precondition for normalization, telling the kingdom to ‘keep riding camels in the desert.’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping to sign normalization deals with Saudi Arabia and Indonesia before holding legislative elections scheduled for June 2026.

Saudi Arabia is in talks with the US for a defense pact, FT reports.

The Trump Organization finalizes a staggering $1-billion deal to construct a sprawling, “Central Park-inspired” project along the Saudi port city of Jeddah’s Red Sea coastline.

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia’s new defense pact deepens military, technological, and strategic ties between the two countries and could reshape rthe egional security landscape amid US retrenchment.

Pakistan likens its recent defense agreement with Saudi Arabia to the one that exists among the Western military alliance of NATO’s member states.

Pakistan’s defense minister says his country’s nuclear program “will be made available” to Saudi Arabia if needed, as the two countries signed a new defense pact this week after Israel stretched its strikes to the Persian Gulf region.

Foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia have discussed bilateral relations and the new defense pact between the Arab kingdom and Pakistan.

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a “landmark strategic deal,” pledging to treat any act of aggression against one country as an attack on both.