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...But Saudi Arabia is also making moves: its foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan was the first Arab diplomat to visit Kyiv since the war began....
...When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990, Riyadh and Tehran bonded over a shared enemy and announced they were restoring diplomatic relations. This began more than a decade of detente....
...Gertrude Bell’s letters include a description of picnicking here on a bed of fine carpets with Iraq’s King Faisal A painter in front of the ruins of Uruk, believed to be the major Sumerian city of the protagonist-king...
...It was Raisi’s turn to reciprocate because Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Faisal bin Farhan, had been to Tehran already. And I was surprised that the opportunity came so quickly....
...Faisal Arale Afrah, a senior official at Mogadishu’s municipality, was sitting at his desk when the building was shaken to the core by the blast....
...After Iraqis revolted against British rule in 1920, London installed a monarch, Hashemite King Faisal. Wa’el’s father was bodyguard to the last king of Iraq, Faisal II....
...It is probably premature to call it historic; the late King Hussein of Jordan held 45 secret meetings with the Israelis over three decades before signing a peace treaty in 1994 that was historic....
...Saudi Arabia has appointed Prince Faisal bin Farhan as foreign minister in a limited government reshuffle announced on Wednesday....
...Turki al-Faisal, a prominent Saudi prince, cited the CIA’s “completely false” reports that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons, a claim that helped build the case for the invasion of...
...That requirement is problematic because half the country’s housing stock was built without permits, says Hussein Arnous, former public works and housing minister....
...He shows a picture of his grandfather at the Kirkuk train station, 95 years earlier, heading to Baghdad to negotiate with King Faisal over Kurdish rights....
...“The presence of the creator of al-Qaeda and the Taliban [Prince Faisal] . . . in that meeting . . . shows inefficiency and thoughtlessness of such individuals who like [former Iraqi dictator] Saddam Hussein...
...Sitting beneath a framed photo of King Faisal in a friend’s bookshop on Rasheed Street, Ziyara al-Atabi, a retired lawyer, has a similar view. “The British built this country....
...The Saudis could never reconcile themselves to the US-led invasion of Iraq, not because it toppled Saddam Hussein but because it led to Shia majority rule in an Arab country....
...Chalabi was shaped by his exile, which began when his family, members of the old Iraqi elite, fled Iraq after the 1958 military coup against King Faisal....
...He brokered the end of the Lebanese civil war and presciently warned the US of the dangers of breaking up Iraqi state institutions after allied forces ousted Saddam Hussein in 2003....
...surged back from Syria into Iraq, that “Daesh [an Arabic acronym for Isis] is our [Sunni] response to your support for the Da’wa”, the Shia Islamist party that has dominated Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein...
...Saddam Hussein waged a war with Iran in the 1980s that left about half a million dead on both sides....
...In October 1918, after a campaign described by Lawrence in his account of events, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922), Faisal, third son of Hussein, Emir of Mecca, entered Damascus in triumph....
...Cracks have already begun to emerge in the opportunist alliance of Islamist insurgents, Ba’athists who served under Saddam Hussein, and disparate tribes that forced Iraq’s army out of the country’s second...
...King Saud, incompetent when the House of Saud needed to fend off Nasser and pan-Arab nationalism, was forced out by King Faisal in 1964....
...It will be harder to prise the rebels from their northern strongholds near the Turkish border, raising the prospect that Mr Assad could end up as ruler of a diminished country, like Iraq’s Saddam Hussein...
...The late King Faisal, an older brother of King Abdullah, imposed women’s education in the 1960s despite fierce opposition, they add....
...“Resistance to change happens when people do not understand what we are doing,” Faisal al-Muaammar, deputy education minister, tells the Financial Times....
...Prince Saud al-Faisal, Saudi foreign minister, on Thursday added to the chorus of condemnation of Iran over allegations that two men linked to an elite Iranian military unit had sought to hire a Mexican...
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