Sarah Leah Whitson, the executive director of the Khashoggi-founded group DAWN, has called on Congress to pass legislation to prohibit all former senior U.S. officials from working for, or financially benefiting from, a foreign government. [ More … ]
King’s brother Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz and his son arrested in latest power grab by Mohammed bin Salman, according to the London-based Middle East Eye. A purge of royal princes is under way in Saudi [ More … ]
It is said that the report claims Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ‘had taken back the Israeli-Palestinian file back from his son’ Saudi Arabia’s king Salman bin Abdulaziz is said to have sidelined his son Crown [ More … ]
King Salman of Saudi Arabia has given near total control of the kingdom to his son Mohammed bin Salman. King Salman of Saudi Arabia shook up the kingdom’s cabinet on Thursday, naming new ministers and [ More … ]
US ‘can’t give Saudi Arabia a pass’ on Khashoggi, US ambassador to UN Nikki Haley says, blames crown prince for murder Saudi Arabia will not receive a pass for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. [ More … ]
Crown prince under pressure to provide answers about Khashoggi. He may become threat to his own project of attracting business. He was the man who sold the world on his vision of a Saudi economy [ More … ]
On his recent high-profile tour of the United States, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, met with executives from Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Disney, Warner Bros. and Lockheed Martin, among others, journeying from Wall [ More … ]
The Saudi crown prince could be working to engineer a two-state solution that favors Israel The Trump declaration recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and relocating the U.S. embassy there is as historically significant to Israel’s [ More … ]
Estate latest extravagant purchase by powerful prince, who has been waging sweeping anti-corruption campaign Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been revealed as the owner of a French chateau described as the world’s most [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s rulers have lots of worries, but Trump’s announcement about the holy city isn’t one of them. Saudi Arabia, the protector of Islam and home to its two holiest sites, is a good place [ More … ]
Bin Salman called Iran’s Khamenei “the new Hitler of the Middle East” in an interview with the New York Times, sharply escalating the war of words between the two rival countries. Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown [ More … ]
As next in line to be king of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Nayef was unaccustomed to being told what to do. Then, one night in June, he was summoned to a palace in Mecca, held [ More … ]
The recently deposed crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Nayef, has been barred from leaving the kingdom and confined to his palace in the coastal city of Jeddah, according to four current and former [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has replaced Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef with his favored son Mohammed bin Salman, overturning the established succession order to ease his son’s path to the throne. Mohammed bin Nayef was [ More … ]
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