Saudi Arabia remains at negotiating table despite being under fire

In the past three years, an unusual list of visitors has passed through Saudi Arabia. Envoys from the two warring sides in Sudan signed a declaration on protecting civilians in Jeddah in 2023. Later that year, representatives of some 40 countries met in the same city to discuss peace in Ukraine. In February 2025, the American and Russian foreign ministers sat down together in Riyadh, the first meeting of its kind since the invasion of Ukraine. A month later, American and Ukrainian officials met