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FRANCK FIFE / AFP / Getty Images
Saudi Arabia's Sarah Attar competes in the women's 800m heats at the athletics event of the London 2012 Olympic Games on August 8, 2012 in London.
Bob Daugherty / AP FILE
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of U.S. troops in the Gulf, gazes from the window of his small jet on his way out to visit U.S. troops in the desert in Saudi Arabia on Jan. 13, 1991. Schwarzkopf died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 in Tampa, Fla. He was 78.
Lorenzo Scaraggi / Getty Images
American peace activist Rachel Corrie speaks during an interview with MBC Saudi Arabia television March 14, 2003 in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Corrie was run over and killed by an Israeli bulldozer two days later when she tried to stop it from destroying a Palestinian house in Rafah.
Dmitri Kessel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
The caption that accompanied this image when it appeared in LIFE: "Young couple from North Dakota, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Barger live at Dammam, a town of 1,000 people on the east coast of Saudi Arabia. Barger is an assistant 'government relations' man with Arabian American [oil company]. His air-conditioned three-room bunkhouse, made of frame and native masonry, was built for him by the company and most of his furniture is company owned. Virtually every American family can afford several servants, generally imported Indians or Sudanese who receive $20 a month. Barger has been in Saudi Arabia for nine years."
Dmitri Kessel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
The caption that accompanied this image when it appeared in LIFE: "Aramco's newest well in Saudi Arabia is at Qatif, will bring in 10,000 barrels per day. Square patches in the foreground are date gardens."
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The caption that accompanied this image when it appeared in LIFE: "Aramco's [Saudi Arabian Oil Company] two refineries in Saudi Arabia: old plant (foreground) refines 3,000 barrels daily. New refinery (background) has capacity of 50,000 barrels daily."
Franco Pagetti / VII for TIME
King Abdullah Economic City being built in Saudi Arabia, when completed. in 20 years, it will be the size of Washington DC and have a projected population of over 1.4 million people.
AFP / Getty
Vice President Dick Cheney walks with Saudi King Abdullah, in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, May 12, 2007. The man between them is a translator.
AFP / Getty
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, left, and Syrian President Bashar Assad at al-Shaab palace in Damascus on Oct. 7, 2009
Ronald Zak / AP
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Ibrahim Naimi speaks to journalists prior to the start of the OPEC meeting at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday Sept. 9, 2008.
Hasan Sarbakhshian / AP
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal
Al-Ekhbariah
Saudi Arabia arrested 172 suspected terrorists, seizing weapons and millions of dollars in cash.
Mohamed Messara / EPA
Saudi Arabia's princes and officials during the last of the two day Arab summit in Riyadh, Thursday, March 29, 2007.
Suhaib Salem / Getty
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah (R) talks with Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal after their meeting in Jeddah Tuesday 06 February 2007.
Waseem Obaidi / Bloomberg via Getty Images
The Kingdom Tower illuminated at night on King Fahad Road in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, April 9, 2012.
Aldo Pavan / Lonely Planet Images / Getty Images
Townscape from Burj Al-Mamlaka tower in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
HO / AFP / Getty Images
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, left, welcomes Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari in Riyadh in 2008
Mohammed Mahjoub / AFP / Getty
King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz of Saudi Arabia.
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An image from Bahrain TV shows troops traveling across a causeway from Saudi Arabia to Bahrain on March 14, 2011
BROOKS KRAFT/CORBIS FOR TIME
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal
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Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, leaves the White House after meeting with President Bush
(L to R) Marwan Naamani / AFP / Getty ; News of the World
Phelps at a press conference in Saudi Arabia in January, left, and in a photo published by "News of the World"
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s capital, as seen from the 99th-floor of one city tower, has sustained its own share of attacks
AP
Rumsfeld meets Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz
REUTERS
Paul Johnson being held in Saudi Arabia last week
Kazuyoshi Nomachi / Corbis
A petrochemical plant is shown in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia.
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Ras Tannura's oil production plant near Dammam in Saudi Arabia.
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A crude oil tank in Saudi Arabia
Franco Pagetti / VII for TIME
Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal at his lavish desert camp outside Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
AP
A female teacher leaves a school by car in the capital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Iraqi supporters celebrate the victory of their country's football team against Saudi Arabia for the final of the Asian Football Cup on July 29 in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf.
Bilai Qabalan / AFP / Getty
A general view shows an oil production plant near Dammam in Saudi Arabia's eastern province.
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Donald Rumsfeld addresses Coalition troops at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia
Lynsey Addario / VII for TIME
Fouz Awadh al Khamdi, a Saudi TV anchor, talks with colleagues after shooting a live segment at the Ministry of Information in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Feb. 25, 2013.
Lynsey Addario / VII for TIME
Saudi guides walk through the old city in Al Ula, near Maidan e Saleh, the UNESCO World Heritage site, in the Madinah region of Saudi Arabia, March 2, 2013.
Mast Irham / EPA
Illegal migrant workers who were being prepared to be sent to Saudi Arabia are gathered after a raid by Indonesian police on a shelter run by a migrant worker placement company. Indonesia is considering a moratorium on sending migrant workers to Saudi Arabia in the wake of the Saudi Arabian execution of Indonesian maid Ruyati Binti Sapubi for murdering her employer.
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Not published in LIFE. Saudi Arabia, 1945.
Dmitri Kessel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Not published in LIFE. Saudi Arabia, 1945.
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Not published in LIFE. Saudi Arabia, 1945.
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Not published in LIFE. Saudi Arabia, 1945.
Hassan Ammar / AP
Muslim pilgrims pray on a rocky hill called the Mountain of Mercy on the Plain of Arafat near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012.
EPA
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri (C) attends the funeral of Saudi crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 25, 2011.
Reuters
More than 100 mostly young men defied a ban on demonstrations in the main Shi'ite city of Qatif, Saudi Arabia, March 9th, 2011.
HO / Reuters
Saudi King Abdullah (L) welcomes Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa on his arrival at Riyadh Airport, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 23rd, 2011.
Hassan Ammar / AFP / Getty
Young Saudi men released from Guantanamo Bay as well as prisons in Iraq and Saudi Arabia listen to a Muslim cleric during a course at a rehabilitation center near Riyadh
Hassan Ammar / AFP / Getty
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz addresses the closing session of the Arab Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 29, 2007.
HASAN JAMALI / AP
SINFUL PLEASURES: Risking the wrath of the religious police, a woman in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, loosens her veil to eat an ice cream
JOHN MOORE/AP
A Saudi oil company official checks out an oil rig near Howta, Saudi Arabia
GREG BAKER/AP
U.S. soldiers recruit local men to help improve security along Iraq's border with Saudi Arabia
Ammar Awad / Reuters
Antigovernment protesters spray foam and wave the national flag in Sana'a on June 5, 2011, in celebration of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's departure to Saudi Arabia
U.S. TV POOL/REUTERS
Colin Powell visits the scene of a suicide attack at a housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME
President Bush and Saudi King Abdullah watch a display of the King's horses at Al Janadriyah Farm in Al Janadriyah, Saudi Arabia
AP / Eranga Jayawardena
Razeena, left, and Mohammed Nafeek, the parents of Rizana Nafeek, a Sri Lankan maid sentenced to be beheaded after a baby died in her care in Saudi Arabia, are pictured in Colombo on July 16, 2007
Abdeljalil Bounhar / AP
Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheik Khalid bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Deputy Prime Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Mohammad Al-Salem Al-Sabah, and Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Prince Saud Al-Faisal attend a meeting at the Palmeraie Golf Palace in Marrakech, Morocco
Gilles BASSIGNAC / Gamma-Rapho / Getty Images
Army General Norman Schwarzkopf briefs the press on the war's progress. Jan. 30, 1991, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Not published in LIFE. Saudi Arabia, 1945.
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Not published in LIFE. Saudi Arabia, 1945.
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Not published in LIFE. Saudi Arabia, 1945.
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Not published in LIFE. Aerial view of the Ras Tenura oil refinery, Saudi Arabia, 1945.
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