The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a country that makes up most of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the birthplace of Islam and has been the center of Islamic culture for fourteen centuries. The modern nation came about from the unification of various tribes after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The discovery of petroleum and a subsequent alliance with the United States in the 20th Century made Saudi Arabia extremely wealthy. By the 21st Century, Saudi Arabia was the largest oil producer in the world.
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After the withdrawal of American military forces from the Middle East in 2012, Saudi Arabia began to build a sphere of influence in the region and coming into direct conflict with its rival Iran. Both Iran and Saudi Arabia entered an arms race in which the Saudis purchased large amounts of modern weaponry from the United States.[1] Eventually both powers obtained nuclear weapons in 2014.[2]
Following the collapse of Iraq's government in 2015, Saudi Arabia occupied southern Iraq to to protect Sunni Muslims from sectarian violence and challenge Iran's occupation of northern Iraq.[3] Soon after, the Saudis formed a military coalition with Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey. The intense standoff between Saudi Arabia and Iran eventually boiled over into an intense regional conflict dubbed as the Oil Wars on June 8, 2016.[4]
The United States supported Saudi Arabia and its allies with funds, equipment, and even troop deployments. The war dragged on through numerous attempted peace talks before ending near the end of 2016. Saudi Arabia was deeply devastated by the war as many of its oil wells, pipelines, and refineries were destroyed by Iranian airstrikes, which resulted a global energy crisis.[5]
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Riyadh is destroyed in nuclear fire.
Saudi Arabia was drastically affected by the War on Terror in which the capital city of Riyadh was destroyed by a smuggled Iranian nuclear bomb in 2016.
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