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Police commandos stand guard on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, outside a house in Islamabad, Pakistan, where family members of the late al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden are believed to be held. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Bin Laden family’s deportation from Pakistan hits snag

Associated Press

Police commandos stand guard on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, outside a house in Islamabad, Pakistan, where family members of the late al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden are believed to be held. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Bin Laden’s family to leave Pakistan at midnight

By Munir Ahmed and Sebastian Abbot - Associated Press

In this undated photo, Reema Abdullah, striker of Jeddah Kings United all female team, poses in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Abdullah, Saudi Arabian female sports commentator and an amateur football player in the ultraconservative Muslim country, says she will be one of the 8,000 people who will carry the Olympic flame for the 2012 London Games. (Associated Press/Reema Abdullah)

Report: Saudis may not send women to Olympics

Associated Press

Ahmad al-Qattan (center), Saudi Arabia's permanent representative to the League of Arab States, attends the annual Arab League summit in Baghdad on March, 29, 2012. (Associated Press)

Clinton, Saudi Arabia explore Syria crisis

By Abdullah Al-Shihri - Associated Press

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (center) attends the Arab League summit in Baghdad on Thursday, March, 29, 2012. Only 10 leaders of the 22-member bloc are in attendance. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Fewer than half of Arab leaders attend Iraq summit

By Hamza Hendawi and Lara Jakes - Associated Press

Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, held a rare televised news conference Sunday after a meeting with counterparts in the Persian Gulf region. He took a direct jab at the regime of Bashar Assad by saying there are Syrians "who do not represent the majority of people [and] who work with Iran." (Associated Press)

Rivals use Syria as target on Iran

By Brian Murphy - Associated Press

Oil below $107 after Saudi explosion report denied

Associated Press

King Abdullah, center, of Saudi Arabia arrives at his palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. The Saudi Press Agency said Abdullah entered a hospital on Friday due to complications in the back pain suffered by them and the doctors advised him to rest. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency)

EDITORIAL: A fatal tweet

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

Shoppers visit a store at the Dragon Mart in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. China is forging deeper ties to Saudi Arabia and other U.S.-allied Arab nations across the Gulf. Chinese firms are helping build the Gulf's railways, Arab investors are pumping cash into Chinese banks and the Dubai airport is racing to keep its duty-free shelves stocked with Chunghwa cigarettes coveted by businessmen from Beijing. (Associated Press)

China forges ties with oil-rich Arabs

By Adam Schreck - Associated Press

Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: Shariah’s police?

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

Malaysia defends deportation of Saudi journalist

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press

The Arab League's Syria group meets in Cairo on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012, as the league considers a proposal to revive its suspended observer mission in Syria by expanding it to include monitors from non-Arab Muslim nations and the United Nations, officials from the 22-member group said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Arab League wants U.N. peacekeepers in Syria

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

Foreign minister: Syria has duty to confront armed groups

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (center) is welcomed by an unidentified Saudi official (left) as Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdel-Aziz (right) looks on before their meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency)

Iran warns Gulf Arabs on oil

By Tarek El-Tablawy - Associated Press

**FILE** F-15 warplanes of the Saudi Air Force fly over Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Jan. 25, 2009, during a graduation ceremony at King Faisal Air Force University. (Associated Press)

U.S. finalizes deal to sell F-15s to Saudi Arabia

By Julie Pace - Associated Press

** FILE ** Ben Nelson (Associated Press)

Inside Politics

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

**FILE** Taliban militants, who were arrested by Afghan Border Police, stand over their guns July 4, 2011, while they are presented to the media at the Afghan Border Police headquarters in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. All of them were dressed as women and at least one was strapped with an explosive vest. (Associated Press)

Karzai: Taliban office should be in Afghanistan

By Amir Shah - Associated Press

Illustration: Nuclear eye by Tim Brinton.

GRENELL & WALSH: Obama’s nuclear-reduction fantasy

By Richard Grenell and Eddie Walsh - The Washington Times

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, signs an agreement to step down on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. (Associated Press)

Uprising forces Yemeni president to step down

By Abdullah al-Shihri and Ben Hubbard - Associated Press