{"id":17504,"date":"2026-02-08T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-us-and-saudi-arabia-conduct-joint-naval-exercises-in-jeddah\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:30:14","slug":"the-us-and-saudi-arabia-conduct-joint-naval-exercises-in-jeddah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-us-and-saudi-arabia-conduct-joint-naval-exercises-in-jeddah\/","title":{"rendered":"The US and Saudi Arabia conduct joint naval exercises in Jeddah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/download-36.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia and the United States conducted a joint naval exercise in the western city of Jeddah, the country&#8217;s Defense Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued late Saturday, quoted by Anadolu, the ministry said the Blue Defender 26 exercise is being held at the King Faisal Naval Base in Jeddah, without specifying its duration.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise &#8220;aims to increase joint military cooperation and the exchange of expertise,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the exercise included &#8220;the execution of field and tactical scenarios, during which both forces demonstrated a high level of professionalism and combat readiness, reflecting their ability to act together to enhance operational capabilities and strengthen maritime security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The exercise comes as Riyadh and Washington have signed agreements in several areas, including defense, worth $270 billion, according to remarks by US President Donald Trump during his speech at the US-Saudi Investment Forum held in Washington in January.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia and the United States conducted a joint naval exercise in the western city of Jeddah, the country&#8217;s Defense Ministry said. In a statement issued late Saturday, quoted by Anadolu, the ministry said the Blue Defender 26 exercise is being held at the King Faisal Naval Base in Jeddah, without specifying its duration. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-17504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":132,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17506,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504\/revisions\/17506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}