Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said he bears responsibility for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year by Saudi operatives “because it happened under my watch”, according to a PBS documentary to be broadcast next week. Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, has not spoken publicly about the killing inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The CIA and […]
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US pushes for Saudi progress on Khashoggi probe before anniversary of killing
The Trump administration is pressing Saudi Arabia to show “tangible progress” toward holding to account those behind the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and wants them to do so before the one-year anniversary of his murder, a senior administration official said. Pushing back against critics who have accused President Donald Trump of letting the […]
Defying Trump, Senate votes to end US support for Yemen war
Yemenis displaced from areas near the border with Saudi Arabia receive humanitarian aid given by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the northern province of Hajjah on March 11, 2019 The US Senate on Wednesday dealt a stinging bipartisan rebuke to Donald Trump’s foreign policy and his […]
Brussels proposes adding Saudi Arabia to EU money-laundering blacklist
Tensions between Riyadh and European capitals have been heightened by the murder last year of the columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul Saudi Arabia expressed “regret” on Thursday over EU proposals to add it and six other countries to a money-laundering blacklist of governments that do too little to thwart the financing […]
Turkey widens Khashoggi search, quizzes consulate staff
Turkey on Friday widened the investigation into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi after his visit to the Saudi consulate, searching a forest in the city and interviewing the mission’s staff. Ankara denied giving any audio recording to US officials from the investigation about Khashoggi, a former royal insider who moved to the United States […]