Its patriarch, King Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud (known as Ibn Saud), declared himself king of Saudi Arabia in 1932.

[IBN SAUD is King of the Hejaz, which includes Mecca and Medina, and of Nejd, his dominions as a whole embracing the entire area of Desert Arabia. — THE EDITOR] I CALL him my friend, although he ...

On this day in 1945, with World War II soon to draw to an end, President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with King Abdulaziz ibn Abdul Rahman Al Saud in Egypt. They met in the Great Bitter Lake along ...

Roosevelt and Ibn Saud built groundwork for current world order, on a boat On Friday, Joe Biden will pay his first visit to Saudi Arabia as President of the US. The Biden trip is the latest twist ...