Khalid bin Sultan Al Saud (Arabic: خالد بن سلطان بن عبد العزيز آل سعود; born 24 September 1949) is the former deputy minister of defense, a member of the House of Saud, and a grandson of King Abdulaziz.

[9] 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.

Shortly after occupation of Iraq to Kuwait in the first Persian Gulf War, he was chosen as the commander of the joint Arab forces,[11] and shared an equal position and responsibility with general Norman Schwarzkopf of US Army.

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.

[18] King Abdullah specifically expressed his concerns over the long duration of the conflict, large number of casualties, and Saudi incompetence.

[citation needed] Joseph A. Kéchichian, a Middle East analyst, argued after Khalid's removal from office on 20 April 2013 that there are three potential reasons for his dismissal, one of which is about his activity in 2009 mentioned above.

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."

"[citation needed] Finally, he proposed improving Turkish-Arab ties "[s]olely by granting supreme importance to mutual economic interests.

And he proposes Turkish-Arab cultural collaboration, calling on Arabs and Turks to "start purging history books and textbooks of mutual insults."

[28] 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.

[30] 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.

Another son, Abdullah bin Khalid, was the permanent representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations in Vienna.

[32] He was assigned to the post in September 2019,[32] and his tenure lasted until January 2020 when he was made nonresident ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Slovakia and Slovenia.