Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday morning for urgent meetings with King Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir to discuss the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi. Turkish officials said they expect Pompeo to visit Ankara next, bringing important information about the case from the Saudis.
RIYADH – US top diplomat Mike Pompeo was in Saudi Arabia for urgent talks with King Salman Tuesday seeking answers about the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, amid US media reports the kingdom may be mulling an admission he died during a botched interrogation.
During an interview with SiriusXM Progress’ “Signal Boost” on Monday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that she has always had a suspicion that there was some financial transaction involving President Trump and the Saudis, “and I think that
Saudi Arabia reportedly vowed to use its economic influence to retaliate against any punitive actions “with an even stronger measure” in a statement Sunday in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of “severe punishment” over the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.
The much-discussed and often-delayed joint inspection of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by Turkish and Saudi officials formally began on Monday.
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz had phone conversations with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday night and U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday morning to discuss the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.
The New York Times recently published an article titled “Silicon Valley’s Saudi Arabia Problem,” which investigates tech companies’ willingness to ignore human rights violations by major Saudi investors.
“Just spoke to the King of Saudi Arabia who denies any knowledge of whatever may have happened ‘to our Saudi Arabian citizen,'” Trump wrote on Twitter. “He said that they are working closely with Turkey to find [an] answer.”
Contents: Saudi Arabia tries to recover from Khashoggi disappearance disaster; Negotiations follow the pattern of N. Korea’s 2010 torpedoing of S. Korean warship
Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” network global affairs analyst Max Boot said President Donald Trump was “sacrificing what makes America great” by not confronting Saudi Arabia for their suspected involvement in Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance. Boot said, “This
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” former CIA director John Brennan said President Donald Trump “siding up to authoritarian leader” has “emboldened” Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is often referred by his initials MBS. Discussing the suspected
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said America’s “moral credibility” was at risk in its response to suspected Saudi Arabian involvement in Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance. Rubio said, “Our moral credibility, our ability to call
(AFP) — Britain, France and Germany insisted Sunday that “light must be shed” on the whereabouts of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as they called for a credible investigation into his disappearance.
Donald Trump’s warning that any involvement by Saudi Arabia in the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi would be met by “severe punishment” crashed the stock market in Riyadh on Sunday.
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has said Saudi Arabia could be behind the disappearance of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi and warned Washington would inflict “severe punishment” if he was murdered.
During a preview clip of an interview with CBS set to air on Sunday’s “60 Minutes,” President Trump stated that if Saudi Arabia is responsible for murdering Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi, he doesn’t want to cut off sales of
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) stated that it is “disturbing” when President Trump attacks the media, and the president’s words carry power beyond the U.S.. Warner added that he isn’t
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-TN) stated that if Saudi Arabia is responsible for murdering Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi, “they need to a pay large price for that, a
The Washington Post published a story Thursday claiming Turkish officials told the U.S. they have audio and video recordings from inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul proving Saudi agents murdered missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Turks have apparently have not shared the evidence with anyone yet.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert assured reporters during a regular press briefing Thursday that the Trump administration is engaged in the case of missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi “at the highest levels,” refusing to comment on what Washington suspects may have happened to him.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that if Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia there should be “all-out sanctions” and everything should be on the table. Graham said that if Saudi Arabia is
A bipartisan group of senators wrote to the White House on Wednesday invoking the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to demand an investigation into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and possible sanctions against Saudi Arabia.
MSNBC host Chris Hayes tweeted an unhinged conspiracy theory Wednesday night, suggesting that President Trump could be receiving “massive bribes” from Saudis for his “tacit approval” of them killing their critics.
President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that he spoke with the leaders of Saudi Arabia after a journalist mysteriously disappeared last week.
A Turkish newspaper aligned with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday claimed it has identified the 15 members of the team allegedly sent from Saudi Arabia to kidnap or kill missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared last week after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Officials from the United States, the United Nations, and the European Union expressed concern over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Monday and asked the government of Saudi Arabia to conduct a thorough investigation.
ISTANBUL — Turkey said Tuesday it will search the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul as part of an investigation into the disappearance of a missing Saudi contributor to The Washington Post, a week after he vanished during a visit there.
Ankara – Turkey’s president has demanded Saudi officials prove their claim that missing journalist and Riyadh critic Jamal Khashoggi left the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, as the US called for a thorough probe into his disappearance.
The mystery of Washington Post contributor Jama Khashoggi’s disappearance took a grim turn over the weekend as Turkish investigators claimed that an execution squad dispatched from Saudi Arabia murdered Khashoggi within the walls of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Contents: Suspicious disappearance of Saudi journalist in Turkey threatens to upset Mideast relations; Khashoggi incident threatens Saudi relationship with the West
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Turkish police have concluded that prominent Saudi journalist and critic Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi mission in Istanbul after going missing Tuesday, according to an unnamed government official.
The strange case of Jamal Khashoggi grew stranger on Thursday, as the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul insisted the missing Washington Post contributor is not detained within its walls, as Turkey has alleged.
A Saudi woman has been told the man who asked to marry her is “religiously unfit” because he is known to have once played the oriental lute.
Iran’s hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) placed explosives in the bags of unsuspecting Iranian pilgrims bound for Hajj in Saudi Arabia in 1986, the family of a prominent Shiite cleric reportedly confirmed this week.
President Donald Trump on Saturday hit out at countries that rely on the U.S. “subsidizing” their military capabilities, pointing to Saudi Arabia, as well as Japan and South Korea as culprits. In doing so he linked them to NATO allies in Europe that rely on U.S. defense capabilities while neglecting their own.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has defended his decision to tweet that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private by stating that he had a “verbal agreement” with Saudi investors.
ranian officials took their belligerent rhetoric up another notch on Friday, as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) told U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates they will face a “storm” of retaliation if they don’t heed the IRGC’s warnings, while a senior cleric directly threatened U.S. military bases in the region.
Belgian MP Georges Dallemagne has expressed concern that the Grand Mosque of Brussels may have resumed more hardline sermons and may be continuing to preach hate. Mr Dallemagne said earlier this week that he believed the leaders of the Grand Mosque were deceiving
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, during his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, accused state-sponsor of terrorism Iran of trafficking illegal drugs into Yemen to fund the its proxy Houthi rebels.
Iran-allied Shiite Houthi rebels fighting against the Saudi- and Emirati-backed government in Yemen have repeatedly committed atrocities that may amount to “war crimes” including torture and enforced disappearances, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Tuesday.
