Khalid bin Sultan Al Saud

Prince Khalid was born on 24 September 1948. and full brother of Fahd bin Sultan, Faisal bin Sultan and Turki bin Sultan. Their mother is Munira bint Abdulaziz bin Musaed bin Jiluwi{{cite news Khalid bin Sultan is a graduate of King Saud University. He attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from January 1967, where he was a corporal in the cadet government, and graduated in 1968.{{cite book|author=Khalid bin Sultan|date=1995|title=Desert Warrior ==Career==

In the first years as a soldier, despite his choice to be selected for special forces personnel, Khalid bin Sultan was given a command of an artillery platoon in Tabuk province. Later, his position advanced as he was given a task for conducting contract and purchasing of Saudi Arabia's first guided missile with the People's Republic of China. For this prominent role, he was given an honorary title "Father of Saudi Arabia's Missile". After years in the army, thinking that air defense should be given more important role in the national defense, he established the Saudi air defense force, and became its first commander. Shortly after occupation of Iraq to Kuwait in the first Persian Gulf War, he was chosen as the commander of the joint Arab forces, and shared an equal position and responsibility with general Norman Schwarzkopf of US Army.{{cite news|title=The Saudi Question|date=30 March 2015 In early 2011, Prince Khalid announced that “more than 70 percent of military equipment can be produced locally" and the future creation of a government branch for domestic military growth.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-19/saudi-arabia-plans-more-military-hardware-output-arab-news-says.html|author=Glen Carey|title=Saudi Arabia Plans More Military Hardware Output, Arab News Says|work=Bloomberg ==2009 Yemen bombing==

In November 2009, Khalid bin Sultan led a Saudi military intervention in Yemen. In December 2009, Khalid gave a 48-hour ultimatum for Houthi withdrawal from Al Jabri. Soon, he declared that the campaign had ended after the Houthi promised through Al-Quds Al-Arabi they would withdraw from the border in exchange for a ceasefire. The Houthi also stated that the Yemen government had used Saudi territory to bomb targets. In February 2010, Ambassador Smith met with Khalid. Smith brought attention to Saudi airstrikes on Yemeni hospitals. Khalid admitted that the event occurred because Yemen had designated the area as a Houthi military base. He also stated that this event occurred because of inaccurate military equipment and the U.S. refusal to provide Predators. He went on to state that Saudi strategy was to force the Houthis to reconcile with the Yemeni government by a strong show of military force. He complained that it was difficult to avoid civilian casualties. The Saudi-Yemeni joint committee granted clearances to Khalid bin Sultan for attacks to be conducted. He also stated that Yemeni intelligence was unreliable and politically motivated. Yemen data claimed terrorist positions in a place when in actuality the place was the office of General Ali Mohsen Al Ahmar, a political adversary to President Saleh. Wealth and Paradise Papers Leaked US cables dated November 1996 cited the wealth of Prince Khalid as $2 billion. In November 2017 an investigation conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism cited his name in the list of politicians named in Paradise Papers allegations. ==Other positions==

At the end of the 1990s, Prince Khalid had business contacts with French electronics group Thomson-CSF. Khalid is the chairman for the committee of the Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz International Prize for Water. He is chair of board of trustees of Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Foundation. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Arab Thought Foundation that is a Saudi think-tank group, attempting to improve the relations between Arab nations and the Western nations.{{cite web|title=Board of Trustees He owned the newspaper Al-Hayat. It is said that he did not interfere in its articles as long as no royal criticism is published. ==Views==

Turkish-Arab relations In the late 1990s, Khalid expressed an opinion concerning the Turkish-Arab relations. According to him, Arabs should ask themselves what brought about this crisis. After criticizing Arab politics for an inability to "cope with rapid changes on the ground," he states how they "assumed Turkey would be on their side forever, even if it gained no benefit thereby." The Arab side, on the other hand, "did not comprehend the complexities of the internal situation in Turkey, or that country's regional and international considerations. This created a climate that could push Turkey ever further into the camp of unfriendly countries." Finally, he proposed improving Turkish-Arab ties "[s]olely by granting supreme importance to mutual economic interests. It is vital to find a form of economic integration between the Arabs and Turks, even if it is a gradual process." And he proposes Turkish-Arab cultural collaboration, calling on Arabs and Turks to "start purging history books and textbooks of mutual insults." He also encouraged military cooperation between Turkey, Pakistan, and Arab states of the Persian Gulf. Ethiopia In February 2013, Khalid made a statement about Ethiopia's right to use the Nile waters, which was officially denounced by the Saudi government. His remarks were as follows: "The Ethiopian Renaissance dam is for political plotting rather than for economic gain and constitutes a threat to Egyptian and Sudanese national security."{{cite news|title=Saudi King sacks anti-Ethiopian Prince from cabinet ==Personal life==

Khalid's first marriage was to his first cousin, Lulua, King Fahd's daughter. They divorced in 1978. One of his daughters, Princess Hala, is the former wife of Turki bin Abdullah, who was then a pilot in the Royal Saudi Air Force, and they married on 13 January 2010. His son, Faisal bin Khalid, is the governor of the Northern Borders Region. Another son, Abdullah bin Khalid, was the permanent representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations in Vienna. and his tenure lasted until January 2020 when he was made nonresident ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Slovakia and Slovenia. ==See also==