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Smoke rises after Saudi-led airstrikes on an army base in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Mar. 7, 2021. The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen said Sunday it launched a new air campaign on the war-torn country’s capital and on other provinces. The airstrikes come as retaliation for recent missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia that were claimed by the Iranian-backed rebels. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Saudi-led coalition strikes Yemen’s rebel-held capital

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting about cancer in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

EDITORIAL: Biden pivot toward Iran

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - This Sept. 15, 2019, file photo, shows storage tanks at the North Jiddah bulk plant, an Aramco oil facility, in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. Yemen's Houthi rebels said they struck a Saudi oil facility in the port city of Jiddah on Thursday, March 4, 2021, the latest in a series of cross-border attacks the group has claimed against the kingdom amid the grinding war in Yemen. A Houthi military spokesman, tweeted that the rebels fired a new Quds-2 cruise missile at the facility. He posted a satellite image online that matched Aramco’s North Jiddah Bulk Plant, where oil products are stored in tanks. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Yemen rebels claim Saudi oil facility hit; no damage seen

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

US sanctions 2 Yemeni rebels for cross-border, sea attacks

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This image released by Briarcliff Entertainment shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, with journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a scene from the documentary &quot;The Dissident.&quot; (Briarcliff Entertainment via AP)

Rights group files complaint in Germany in Khashoggi killing

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

In this Oct. 27, 2011, file photo, then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, offers his condolences to then Prince Salman bin Abdel-Aziz upon the death of his brother Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, at Prince Sultan palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. President Joe Biden is expected to speak to Saudi King Salman for the first time in Biden’s just over a month-old administration. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) ** FILE **

Khashoggi killing report used to ‘recalibrate’ U.S-Saudi relations

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Saudi Arabia says it intercepts missile attack over capital

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2014 file photo, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain. Briarcliff Entertainment said Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, that it has acquired “The Dissident” a documentary about the murdered journalist and will release it theatrically and via on-demand in late 2020 to coincide with the second anniversary of Khashoggi’s death. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

U.S. intelligence blames Saudi crown prince for Khashoggi murder

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 27, 2011, file photo, then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, offers his condolences to then Prince Salman bin Abdel-Aziz upon the death of his brother Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, at Prince Sultan palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. President Joe Biden is expected to speak to Saudi King Salman for the first time in Biden’s just over a month-old administration. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) ** FILE **

Ties with Saudis at stake as U.S. releases findings on Khashoggi killing

By Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press

Recent drone attack on Saudi royal palace launched from Iraq

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020, file photo, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a virtual G-20 summit held over video conferencing, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP, File)

Saudi Arabia says crown prince had ‘successful’ surgery

Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 1973, file photo, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi Arabian oil minister is pictured at a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Yamani, a long-serving oil minister in Saudi Arabia who led the kingdom through the 1973 oil crisis, the nationalization its state energy company and later found himself kidnapped by the assassin Carlos the Jackal, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in London. He was 90. (AP Photo/Harry Harris, File)

Long-serving Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani dies at 90

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this Sept. 22, 2014 file photo, Hawthi Shiite rebels chant slogans at the compound of the army's First Armored Division, after they took it over, in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen’s war began in September 2014, when the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa. Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates and other countries, entered the war alongside Yemen’s internationally recognized government in March 2015. The war has killed some 130,000 people and driven the Arab world’s poorest country to the brink of famine. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File) **FILE**

Biden moves ahead with delisting Iran-backed Houthis as terrorists

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 22, 2014 file photo, Hawthi Shiite rebels chant slogans at the compound of the army's First Armored Division, after they took it over, in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen’s war began in September 2014, when the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa. Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates and other countries, entered the war alongside Yemen’s internationally recognized government in March 2015. The war has killed some 130,000 people and driven the Arab world’s poorest country to the brink of famine. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File) **FILE**

Timeline: Yemen war began in 2014 when Houthis seized Sanaa

Associated Press

FILE - This Nov. 30, 2014 image made from video released by Loujain al-Hathloul, shows her driving towards the United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia border before her arrest on Dec. 1, 2014, in Saudi Arabia. The family of the leading Saudi women’s rights activist says she has been released from prison after nearly three years behind bars. The sisters of Loujain al-Hathloul tweeted the news on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Loujain al-Hathloul, File)

Prominent Saudi women’s rights activist released from prison

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

In this Jan. 25, 2021, photo, Houthi supporters chant slogans as they attend a demonstration against the United States over its decision to designate the Houthis a foreign terrorist organization in Sanaa, Yemen. President Joe Biden is distancing himself from Saudi Arabia's rulers over their war in Yemen and rights abuses. That includes Biden announcing Feb. 4, 2021, he would make good on a campaign pledge to cut U.S. support for a five-year Saudi-led military campaign in neighboring Yemen. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Saudi TV: Yemen rebel attack on airport sets plane on fire

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Three Saudi youths get prison sentence instead of death

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2016, file photo, men are silhouetted against a large representation of the Yemeni flag as they attend a ceremony to mark the anniversary of North Yemen's Sept. 26, 1962 revolution in Sanaa, Yemen. President Joe Biden's announcement that the U.S. will end its support of a Saudi-led coalition's years-long war against Yemen's Houthi rebels likely will increase pressure on the kingdom to end its campaign there, though reaching an enduring peace for the Arab world's poorest country still remains in question. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

EXPLAINER: What US ending Saudi war support means for Yemen

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

IOC urges US government to help curb Saudi broadcast piracy

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2020 file photo, a member of the U.S. Air Force stands near a Patriot missile battery at the Prince Sultan Air Base in al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia. The U.S. military is exploring the possibility using a Red Sea port in Saudi Arabia and an additional two airfields there amid heightened tensions with Iran, the military said Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP, File)

US exploring new bases in Saudi Arabia amid Iran tensions

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press