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Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway speaks with reporters outside the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Kellyanne Conway: Trump weighing Hassan Rouhani meeting after Saudi Arabia oil attacks

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

This Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. shows thick black smoke rising from Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq oil processing facility in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia. Yemen's Houthi rebels launched drone attacks on the world's largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oil field Saturday, sparking huge fires and halting about half of the supplies from the world's largest exporter of oil. (Planet Labs Inc via AP)

Iran denies Saudi Arabia oil attacks

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

This Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. shows thick black smoke rising from Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq oil processing facility in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia. Yemen's Houthi rebels launched drone attacks on the world's largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oil field Saturday, sparking huge fires and halting about half of the supplies from the world's largest exporter of oil. (Planet Labs Inc via AP)

The Latest: Trump disputes ground rules of meeting with Iran

Associated Press

A Saudi man walks past a &quot;Vision 2030&quot; display at a stand about Saudi Arabia during the World Energy Congress in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. Amin Nasser, the chairman and CEO of the state-run oil giant Saudi Aramco, told journalists Tuesday a planned initial public offering of a sliver of the company's worth would happen &quot;very soon.&quot; &quot;Vision 2030&quot; is an ambitious plan by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that includes the IPO of a small part of Saudi Aramco to help fund its efforts. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

OPEC, allies weigh further oil production cut in December

By JON GAMBRELL and FAY ABUELGASIM - Associated Press

This photo provided by Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , dual U.S.-Israeli national Joel Rosenberg shakes hands with Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman at a palace in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. The Saudi government published photos of the meeting, which took place on Tuesday and was attended by leading American-Christian Zionist leaders, including Rosenberg. The nine-person delegation also includes Rev. Johnnie Moore, a co-chairman of President Donald Trump's Evangelical Advisory Council, and Larry Ross, once a longtime spokesman for one of America's most well-known evangelicals Billy Graham. (Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia via AP)

US Christian evangelical delegation meets Saudi crown prince

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Amin Nasser, the chairman and CEO of the state-run oil giant Saudi Aramco, speaks to journalists at the World Energy Congress in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. Nasser told journalists Tuesday a planned initial public offering of a sliver of the oil company's worth would happen &quot;very soon.&quot; (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Saudi Aramco CEO signals local listing coming ‘very soon’

By AYA BATRAWY and FAY ABUELGASIM - Associated Press

Germany to resume training border police in Saudi Arabia

Associated Press

Saudi Arabia's new Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, center, and United Arab Emirates Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei, right, walk through an energy exhibition in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Sept. 9, 2019. Prince Abdulaziz, as well as the CEOs of Total SA and ENI SpA, were in Abu Dhabi on Monday at the World Energy Congress. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

New Saudi energy minister urges producers to share burden

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 1990 file photo, oil pipelines snake through the port area of the Aramco facility at Ras Tannura, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s renewed push to publicly list its most valuable entity, Aramco, is part of a high-stakes plan by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to prepare the country for a future less dependent on oil for survival. (AP Photo/Tannen Maury, File)

Saudi king replaces energy minister, naming one of his sons

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2019 file photo, Yemeni southern separatist fighters inspect the site of UAE airstrikes, near Aden, Yemen. Fighting between their allies in southern Yemen has opened a gaping wound in the Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ coalition fighting the country’s rebels. If they can’t fix it, it threatens to further fragment the country into smaller warring pieces. (AP Photo/Wail al-Qubaty, File)

Cracks in Saudi-UAE coalition risk new war in Yemen

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 1990 file photo, oil pipelines snake through the port area of the Aramco facility at Ras Tannura, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s renewed push to publicly list its most valuable entity, Aramco, is part of a high-stakes plan by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to prepare the country for a future less dependent on oil for survival. (AP Photo/Tannen Maury, File)

A look at Saudi Aramco’s much anticipated, delayed IPO

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Saudi Aramco gets new chairman to prepare for public listing

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2019, file photo, Houthi rebel fighters ride on trucks mounted with weapons, during a gathering aimed at mobilizing more fighters for the Houthi movement, in Sanaa, Yemen. Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s rebels Houthi hit a detention center in southwestern province of Dhamar, officials and the rebels’ health ministry said Sunday. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Saudi-led airstrikes kill at least 100 in rebel-run prison

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, file photo, fighters from a militia known as the Security Belt, that is funded and armed by the United Arab Emirates, discuss launching a mortar towards Houthi rebels, in an area called Moreys, on the frontline in Yemen's Dhale province. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates pledged Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, to keep their floundering coalition war against Yemen's Houthi rebels together after an Emirati troop pullout and the rise of the southern separatists they supported. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Yemeni government forces push into key port city of Aden

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Displaced Yemenis receive food supplies provided by the World Food Programme, at a school in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. The U.N. humanitarian chief in Yemen warned last Wednesday that unless significant new funding is received in the coming weeks, food rations for 12 million people in the war-torn country will be reduced and at least 2.5 million malnourished children will be cut off from life-saving services. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Saudi Arabia, UAE vow to back Yemen war effort amid cracks

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Saudi Arabia reports soldier killed near border with Yemen

Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, March 8, 2004 file photo, an industrial plant strips natural gas from freshly pumped crude oil is seen at Saudi Aramco's Shaybah oil field at Shaybah in Saudi Arabia's Rub al-Khali desert. Saudi state TV reported Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019, that a fire had been controlled at the massive oil and gas Shaybah field after a drone attack claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels. (AP Photo/Bruce Stanley, File)

Yemen rebel drone attack targets remote Saudi oil field

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeq is warning the U.S. against embracing rebel leader Khalifa Haftar, a former Libyan army colonel with alleged CIA ties. "I think President Trump may have gotten the wrong message from allies or advisers about Haftar," he said. "It is our government in Tripoli, not Haftar, that is the main ally of the U.S. as a force to fight terrorism in Libya and North Africa." (Associated Press)

Ahmed Omar Maiteeq of Libya warns Donald Trump of Khalifa Haftar

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Friday Aug. 9, 2019 frame grab from video, Southern Transitional Council separatist fighters line up to storm the presidential palace in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen. The separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates began withdrawing Sunday from positions they seized from the internationally-recognized government in Aden. Both the southern separatists and the government forces are ostensibly allies in the Saudi-led military coalition that’s been battling the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen since 2015, but the four days of fighting in Aden have exposed a major rift in the alliance. (AP Photo)

UAE-backed separatists pull back after seizing Yemen’s Aden

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

A Muslim pilgrim prays as he watches thousands of pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, ahead of the Hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims have arrived in the kingdom to participate in the annual hajj pilgrimage, which starts Saturday, a ritual required of all able-bodied Muslims at least once in their life. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Over 2 million Muslims in Mecca for start of hajj pilgrimage

By BASSAM HATOUM and AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press