Can Saudi Arabia Pull Off Its Plan for an EU-Style Union of Arabian States?
Democracy movements and Shia protests are challenging the Sunni kingdom, which wants to unify with some of its neighbors. More »
Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. A career CIA officer, he has advised four presidents on Middle East and South Asian issues in the White House on the staff of the NSC.
Democracy movements and Shia protests are challenging the Sunni kingdom, which wants to unify with some of its neighbors. More »
A group in the country's dessert Sinai Peninsula is calling itself al-Qaeda, though it doesn't yet appear formally recognized. More »
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