Bayan saukar Sarki Saudat, Sarki Faisal ya fara zamanance da gyare-gyare, inda ya mai da hankali kan kishin Islama, kyamar gurguzu, da goyon bayan Falasdinu.Ya kuma nemi rage tasirin jami’an addini.Daga 1962 zuwa 1970, Saudiyya ta fuskanci kalubale masu yawa daga yakin basasar Yemen.^[49] Rikicin ya taso ne tsakanin 'yan sarautar Yemen da 'yan jamhuriya, tare da Saudiyya na goyon bayan 'yan sarautu a kan 'yan jamhuriyarMasar da ke goyon bayan Masar.Tun a shekara ta 1967 ne rikici tsakanin Saudiyya da Yemen ya ragu, bayan janyewar sojojin Masar daga Yemen.A cikin 1965, Saudi Arabia da Jordan sun yi musayar yankuna, inda Jordan ta bar wani babban yanki na hamada don wani karamin bakin teku kusa da Aqaba.An raba yankin tsaka mai wuya na Saudi-Kuwaiti a shekara ta 1971, tare da ci gaba da raba albarkatun mai.^[48]Yayin da sojojin Saudiyya ba su shiga yakin kwanaki shida a watan Yunin 1967 ba, gwamnatin Saudiyyar daga baya ta ba da tallafin kudi ga Masar, Jordan, da Siriya, inda ta ba da tallafin kowace shekara don taimakon tattalin arzikinsu.Wannan taimakon wani bangare ne na dabarun yankin Saudiyya da ya bayyana matsayinta a siyasar Gabas ta Tsakiya.^[48]A lokacin yakin Larabawa da Isra'ila a shekara ta 1973, Saudiyya ta shiga kauracewa mai na Larabawa kan Amurka da Netherlands.A matsayinta na memba na kungiyar OPEC, yana daga cikin matsakaicin karin farashin mai da aka fara a shekarar 1971. Bayan yakin ya yi tashin gwauron zabi na farashin mai, wanda ya kara habaka arzikin kasar Saudiyya da kuma tasirinsa a duniya.^[48]Tattalin arzikin Saudiyya da ababen more rayuwa sun bunƙasa tare da gagarumin taimako daga Amurka.Wannan hadin gwiwa ya haifar da dangantaka mai karfi amma mai sarkakiya tsakanin kasashen biyu.Kamfanonin Amurka sun taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen kafa masana'antar man fetur ta Saudiyya, kayayyakin more rayuwa, zamanantar da gwamnati, da masana'antar tsaro.^[50]Mulkin Sarki Faisal ya kare ne da kashe shi a shekara ta 1975 da dan uwansa Yarima Faisal bin Musa'id ya yi.^[51]