Today Saudi Arabia is an ally of France, with strong economic, military and political coordination on many topics such as Iran's nuclear program and the departure of Bashar al-Assad.

[6] France joined the United States and other coalition forces in Desert Shield, an operation by American president George H.W Bush to defend the Kingdom from Iraqi aggression after the invasion of Kuwait.

[citation needed] On 6 March 2016, A joint communiqué was signed between Saudi Arabia and France at the end of the official visit to Paris of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif.

[9] On 4 December 2021, French President Emmanuel Macron ended a short tour of Gulf states by meeting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah.

In Wednesday, 24 June 2015 Saudi Arabia and France agreed to sign $12 billion of deals, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that the ten contracts include 23 Airbus H145 helicopters worth $500 million.

[13] Amid the on-going war in Yemen, Saudi Arabia signed a preliminary agreement with the Naval Group of France in February 2019, to build warships, frigates, corvettes and related items in the kingdom.