Informações de viagens de Arábia Saudita
In 1902, ABD AL-AZIZ bin Abd al-Rahman Al Saud captured Riyadh and set out
on a 30-year campaign to unify the Arabian Peninsula. A son of ABD AL-AZIZ rules the country today, and the country's Basic
Law stipulates that the throne shall remain in the hands of the aging sons and grandsons of the kingdom's founder. Following
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Saudi Arabia accepted the Kuwaiti royal family and 400,000 refugees while allowing Western
and Arab troops to deploy on its soil for the liberation of Kuwait the following year. The continuing presence of foreign
troops on Saudi soil after Operation Desert Storm remained a source of tension between the royal family and the public until
the US military's near-complete withdrawal to neighboring Qatar in 2003. The first major terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia in
several years, which occurred in May and November 2003, prompted renewed efforts on the part of the Saudi government to
counter domestic terrorism and extremism, which also coincided with a slight upsurge in media freedom and announcement of
government plans to phase in partial political representation. As part of this effort, the government permitted elections -
held nationwide from February through April 2005 - for half the members of 179 municipal councils. A burgeoning population,
aquifer depletion, and an economy largely dependent on petroleum output and prices are all ongoing governmental concerns.
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