Saudi shifts strategy: Riyadh avoided direct retaliation against Iran’s missile strikes, instead urging restraint and taking a harder line toward Israel. UAE takes action: The UAE has reportedly carried out covert airstrikes on Iranian targets ...

Former Saudi spy chief Prince Turki Al-Faisal has said Israel sought to ignite a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran to bring ruin and destruction to West Asia. He argued that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ‘avoided the horrors of war and its devastating repercussions’ that Israel’s alleged plot would have triggered.

Yahya Sinwar was quoted in secret Hamas meeting notes that ISraeli-Saudi normalization would "open the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path.”

Israel and Saudi Arabia are expected to begin direct negotiations to lay the groundwork for establishing normalization, with mediation and support from the United States. The Israel Hayom newspaper cited American, Arab and Israeli sources as saying in ...