As the country recovers from the disastrous US invasion, it’s being pulled between its neighbor Iran, which has built decades of influence, and a president who wants America to have more sway in OPEC’s second-largest producer.

Saudi Arabia is finalizing an agreement on a new military coalition with Somalia and Egypt, part of its bid to curtail the United Arab Emirates’ regional influence.

Iran has spent decades funding and nurturing a web of proxy militias across the Middle East for exactly this type of moment: The Islamic Republic is besieged by a popular domestic uprising and threatened externally by arch enemies Israel and the US.

Members of a Yemeni faction that led a failed secession attempt last month announced from Riyadh the group had dissolved — though the claim was declared illegitimate by the organization’s leaders in the United Arab Emirates.

Saudi Arabia is moving to end the role of the United Arab Emirates in Yemen and diminish its neighbor’s influence in other arenas, including the Red Sea, as tensions rise in the longstanding rivalry between the two Gulf powerhouses.

Saudi Arabia is moving to end the role of the United Arab Emirates in Yemen and diminish its neighbor’s influence in other arenas, including the Red Sea, as tensions rise in the longstanding rivalry between the two Gulf powerhouses.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was greeted at the White House last week with considerable pageantry and a series of pledges from US President Donald Trump, a mutual love-in that appeared to deepen the relationship between the two countries.