WASHINGTON (AP) -- Persian Gulf leaders unnerved by Washington's nuclear talks with Iran and Tehran's influence across the Mideast look to President Barack Obama to promise more than words and weapons at Thursday's Camp David summit. They want commitments from Obama that the United States has their backs at a time when the region is under siege ...

The United States and its Gulf allies will try to agree on new security measures at a summit in Washington next week to guard against destabilizing actions by Iran in the region, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday. The West hopes to secure a nuclear deal with Tehran by an end-of-June deadline and this has stirred anxiety among Washington's ...

PARIS (AP) -- Saudi Arabia declared a unilateral cease-fire in Yemen that would start May 12 and urged Shiite rebels and their allies to stop fighting. It was unclear if the Iran-backed Houthis were prepared to lay down their arms. At a news conference Friday with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said the ...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said May 7 that Iran is a destabilizing force that must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. A framework agreement reached last month between Tehran and a group of six world powers limits Iran's nuclear capabilities in return for a lifting of international sanctions. Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf neighbors ...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Saudi Arabia and the United States on Thursday announced a five-day, renewable cease-fire in Yemen's war to allow aid to reach millions of civilians caught in a humanitarian crisis from the conflict. But the truce is dependent on Iran-backed Houthis and their allies also agreeing to stop fighting, they said. The announcement ...

[caption id="attachment_154558" align="alignright" width="184"] US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud Salman at Diriyah Farm in Diriyah, March 5, 2015. Kerry met Gulf Arab foreign ministers in Riyadh to brief them on progress in the nuclear talks with Iran and offer reassurance that any deal would not damage ...

[caption id="attachment_116200" align="alignright" width="190"] US Secretary of State John Kerry boards his plane at Queen Alia Airport in Amman on September 11, 2014 as he travels to Saudi Arabia (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)[/caption] (Bloomberg) -- Secretary of State John Kerry travels to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to reassure the new Saudi king ...

[caption id="attachment_153973" align="alignright" width="189"] U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures during a news conference after he delivered remarks to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva March 2, 2015.CREDIT: REUTERS/EVAN VUCCI/POOL[/caption] (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flies to Riyadh this week to reassure ...

Listening to the opinions of experts regarding the continuing sharp decline in oil prices, one is involuntarily surprised at the naive estimates, which can be summed up like this: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and several other OPEC members are reducing oil prices exclusively to take over new markets during the global overproduction of "black gold", and in ...

[caption id="attachment_116081" align="alignright" width="267"] Kerry to rally Arab support after Obama vows to hit IS[/caption] Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Thursday to shore up Arab support after President Barack Obama ordered a "relentless" campaign against Islamic State (IS) ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has met with Saudi Arabias King Abdullah and Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz over talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel. "I want to thank his majesty for... his enthusiastic support for the efforts that are being made with respect to the peace process," Kerry told reporters on Sunday ...