The House of Saud is known as the world's richest family with a staggering net worth of over $1.4 trillion, surpassing the combined wealth of billionaires like Elon Musk and Mukesh Ambani.

While Saudi Arabia's royals work out the succession of the throne behind closed doors, a few voices are raising the most sensitive matter of all in the kingdom, questioning the ruling Al Saud ...

The Saudi royal family is watching its kingdom turn into a pariah state. No one believes its lies, its laughable assertion that Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in a fistfight at ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Seated on a cushion in a large, carpeted tent on the grounds of his Riyadh (search) palace, Prince Bandar bin Sultan (search) puffed on a cigar and insisted the recent ...

Measuring Saud Family's Hold on Saudi Arabia NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Yousef Ibrahim, former New York Times correspondent and now managing director of the Strategic Energy Investment Group ...

King Saud ruled for 11 years, but his lavish spending led to a power struggle with his half-brother, Crown Prince Faisal, son of Ibn Saud’s third wife. The royal family forced Saud to abdicate ...

Saudi Arabia’s Al-Saud family can trace its roots back more than five hundred years. This powerful and deeply religious tribe originated from an area near present day Riyadh. Its patriarch, King ...

King Fahd's death yesterday after a long illness marks only the beginning of the beginning of a complex succession struggle within Saudi Arabia's royal family, where the immediate future appears ...

By Stephen Kalin and William Maclean DUBAI (Reuters) – The elevation of Mohammed bin Salman as Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has ended two years of speculation about a behind-the-scenes rivalr… ...

A prince of Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud family was given lashes in a prison in Jeddah as a court-ordered punishment, a Saudi newspaper reported on Wednesday, less than a month after the kingdom ...

Ever since 9/11, the question has been: How good a friend is Saudi Arabia? Maybe it should be: How dangerous a foe is Saudi Arabia? Regarding the desert realm, it’s time the American eagle st… ...