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Saudi Arabia has one of the highest percentages of military expenditure in the world, spending around 8% of its GDP in its military, according to the 2020 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimate, [261] which places it as the world's third largest military spender behind the United States and China, [262] and the world's ...
Smaller of the Wabar craters visible on the surface. The crater on the left is about 11 m in diameter. The Wabar craters are impact craters located in Saudi Arabia first brought to the attention of Western scholars by British Arabist, explorer, writer and Colonial Office intelligence officer St John Philby, who discovered them while searching for the legendary city of Ubar in Arabia's Rub' al ...
The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf [2] (Arabic: مجلس التعاون لدول الخلیج العربية), also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC; Arabic: مجلس التعاون الخليجي), is a regional, intergovernmental, political, and economic union comprising Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Fifa's confirmation of Saudi Arabia's hosting of the men's 2034 World Cup - despite the country facing years of scrutiny over its human rights and environmental record - is one of the most ...
The Khobar Towers bombing was an attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, near the national oil company (Saudi Aramco) headquarters of Dhahran and nearby King Abdulaziz Air Base on 25 June 1996.
In 2003–2004, Saudi Arabia saw a wave of al-Qaeda-related suicide bombings, attacks on Non-Muslim foreigners (about 80% of those employed in the Saudi private sector are foreign workers [203] and constitute about 30% of the country's population), [204] and gun battles between Saudi security forces and militants. One reaction to the attacks ...
Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 men's World Cup, FIFA formally announced Wednesday. And in 2030, Morocco, Portugal and Spain will co-host the centennial tournament, with Uruguay, Argentina and ...
Cristiano Ronaldo, who said in an X post he expects the 2034 Cup to be "the best … ever," also joined a league in Saudi Arabia in 2022, making $75 million annually. The Associated Press ...