US seeks to limit fallout from Saudi anger

The Obama administration has sought to limit any damage to the long-standing US alliance with Saudi Arabia in a rift over America's role in the Middle East that has underscored growing strategic differences.

A spate of unusually public complaints from leading members of the Saudi ruling family has shed new light on the kingdom's frustration with the United States over its perceived inaction on Syria, its diplomatic engagement with Iran and its coldness toward the military government in Egypt.

While no one is expecting a rupture in a strategic relationship that has served for more than half a century as a pillar of US policy in the region, some of the mutual interests that brought the two allies together have started to fray.

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