President Obama said that Wednesday’s congressional override of his veto was a “mistake” because the 9/11 relief bill he had vetoed would set a “dangerous precedent” for foreigners to sue the U.S. government.
Appearing on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow, former U.N. Ambassador and American Enterprise Institute senior fellow John Bolton discussed the latest developments on the international scene, including the congressional override of President Obama’s veto against the bill allowing 9/11 families to file suit against Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia could reduce valuable security and intelligence cooperation with longstanding ally Washington after a Congressional “stab in the back” allowing 9/11 victims to sue the kingdom, experts warn.
Women’s rights campaigners in Saudi Arabia have organized on social media to bring an end to the kingdom’s “male guardianship” system, which prohibits women from carrying out fundamental tasks without the a male relative’s permission.
President Barack Obama’s drive to hand off control of Internet domains to a foreign multi-national operation will give some very unpleasant regimes equal say over the future of online speech and commerce.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian leaders have lambasted a Saudi newspaper for siding with Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu by criticizing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ refusal to accept the Israeli premier’s invitation to address the Knesset.
The Middle East Media Research Institute brings us the latest fiery rant from Jamaican Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, who claims infidels are putting cancer into fake “zamzam” sacred water and selling it to Muslims.
Saudi Arabia and its allies have reportedly threatened to retaliate against the United States over a law that allows the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Gulf Arab kingdom in U.S. court for any role it may have played in the 2001 attacks.
The Senate delivered a blow to President Barack Obama’s legacy Wednesday, voting 97-to-1 to override his veto of a bill that would allow 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia.
The Senate acted decisively Wednesday to override President Barack Obama’s veto of Sept. 11 legislation, setting the stage for the contentious bill to become law despite flaws that Obama and top Pentagon officials warn could put U.S. troops and interests at risk.
Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Nayef is set to travel to Ankara, Turkey, this week to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim in a sign Saudi Arabia is looking to cement its alliance with the NATO power
Saudi Arabia has signaled that it may accept an oil deal that does not require Iran to scale back production, which is taken by Bloomberg News as a sign that Iran “has the edge” in its oil price war against the Kingdom.
TEL AVIV – A Saudi daily chastised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for rebuffing an invitation by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address the Israeli Knesset.
Congress is poised to override President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for the kingdom’s alleged backing of the terrorists who carried out the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
President Barack Obama used his veto power on Friday to protect the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia from lawsuits by families of the victims of the 9/11 Islamic atrocity — just as the kingdom has begun admitting that it has been funding jihad terrorism for decades.
The internationally recognized president of Yemen, while addressing world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, accused Iran of spreading terrorism and brutality across the Middle East and vowed to “extract Yemen from the claws of Iran.”
President Barack Obama has vetoed a bill that would have allowed the families of 9/11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani began his address to the U.N. General Assembly by saying the “painful terrorist attack” against New York City on 9/11 “moved the entire world,” but also led to “a devastating war in the Middle East, and the spread of insecurity across the globe.”
President Barack Obama is poised to veto legislation exposing Saudi Arabia to court action over the 9/11 attacks, stepping in to defend legal precedent and an awkward ally, but inviting election-time opprobrium.
Saudi Arabia is facing a watershed moment in its history as its legislative body, the Shura Council, is set to vote on whether to give women the right to apply for a passport without the prior approval of a male chaperon.
The foreign ministers of regional rivals Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia have penned op-ed articles published by two major U.S. newspapers this month accusing one another of fomenting the radical Islamic extremism currently plaguing the Muslim world.
The Kentucky GOP senator, who ran for president in the 2016 cycle, told Breitbart News he and three other senators plan to file a privileged motion on the Senate floor Wednesday–compelling the chamber to vote on whether to block sales of war materiel to Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has rebutted a column by his Iranian counterpart, Mohammed Javad Zarif, in the New York Times last week with a column of his own in the Wall Street Journal, describing Iran as “the leading state-sponsor of terrorism” and “Khomeinism” as the greatest Islamic threat to the world today.
Saudi Arabia said Monday it has smashed three cells linked to the Islamic State group which planned to attack military facilities and other targets and has also detained 17 suspects.
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was one of the most prolific child serial killers and rapists in U.S. history. Known as the “Killer Clown,” he used his professional clown talents to lure victims into his home, where he they then were asphyxiated or strangled. He claimed 33 victims before being arrested, convicted and, finally, executed in 1994.
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, cranked up the war of words between his country and Saudi Arabia in a Wednesday op-ed for the New York Times, accusing the Saudis of using their “tainted petrodollars” to spread the “death cult” of Wahhabi Islam.
Donald Trump Jr. defended Pennsylvania’s coal industry from former President Bill Clinton in a Wednesday appearance in southwestern Pennsylvania.
“I think we are at a turning point nationally, where a choice is going to be made to reject the course that we’ve been on,” said Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily.
Muslim pilgrims, as part of one of the last major rituals of the religious Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and nearby holy sites in Saudi Arabia, engaged in the symbolic stoning of Satan on Monday, reports Al Arabiya.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama intends to veto bipartisan legislation that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, according to the White House.
Over 15,000 Muslims gathered in the parking lot of Angel Stadium on Monday morning to celebrate Eid al-Adha (the “Sacrifice Feast”), the second of two major Islamic holidays that occurs during the time of the annual hajj pilgrimage.
The annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca is underway and in preparation for the religiously sensitive time, Saudi Arabia’s Health Ministry released a warning to nurses working in hospitals near holy sites, meant to protect the holiness of the ceremonies and of course, not to arouse the sexual urges of the pilgrims.
The government of Iran has assembled thousands in the capital, Tehran, to protest Saudi Arabia over a stampede that killed thousands at last year’s hajj pilgrimage. While Iranian media claim the protests were against the Sunni leaders of Riyadh and Bahrain,
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Saudi Arabia has begun issuing hajj pilgrims with identification bracelets one year after a stampede killed around 2,300 people.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has issued yet another tirade against Saudi Arabia’s control of the holiest site in Islam, Mecca, now claiming that America has “blood” on its hands over a stampede at last year’s hajj pilgrimage that killed thousands.
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The largest weapons manufacturer in Latin America, Brazil-based Forjas Taurus SA, has reportedly been accused by Brazilian prosecutors of selling some 8,000 handguns to a known arms trafficker from war-ravaged Yemen in violation of international sanctions.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused Saudi authorities of “bigoted extremism” late Tuesday in an increasingly bitter war of words over Iran’s exclusion from this year’s hajj pilgrimage.
The mufti of Saudi Arabia has recently warned against calls in news outlets and social media from women who want the kingdom to cancel the institution that recognizes men as guardians over them.
