After many months of the US Embassy in Riyadh being run by a chargé d’affaires, President Donald Trump chose Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas, a former Army officer, to be his new ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Hunt, a Republican member of the House of Representatives from the Houston area, was nominated for the post on Monday in a move that comes as US-Saudi relations are going through a particularly sensitive phase, in the wake of the war with Iran and escalating tensions in Yemen and acros
