The former head of the United States’ National Security Agency (SNA) has reportedly received at least $700,000 for consultancy contracts with Saudi Arabia, even after the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Former NSA director [ More … ]
Emirates says arrest of Asim Ghafoor, an American citizen, was coordinated with the US to ‘combat transnational crimes’. The United Arab Emirates has sentenced an American citizen and the former lawyer of Jamal Khashoggi — [ More … ]
Early on the morning of Oct. 2, 2018, a Gulfstream jet carrying a team of Saudi assassins on its way to Istanbul made a quick stopover in Cairo, according to Conspiracyland. The purpose: to pick [ More … ]
United Nations officials twice said Riyadh would have Agnes Callamard ‘taken care of’ following probe into journalist’s assassination, a Middle East Monitor report says A senior Saudi official allegedly issued death threats against outgoing United Nations [ More … ]
President Joe Biden is expected to call Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud on Wednesday, ahead of the scheduled release of a US intelligence report detailing the disappearance and murder of prominent journalist Jamal [ More … ]
The new administration of US President Joe Biden intends to review the recent designation of Yemen’s Houthi movement as a “terrorist” group, and end support for the Saudi-led coalition as the devastating Yemen war approaches [ More … ]
Five of those sentenced were given 20 years in prison for their involvement in the murder of Saudi journalist A Saudi court on Monday overturned five death sentences previously issued against the killers of journalist Jamal [ More … ]
The pardon effectively ends the prospect that any of the men who killed Jamal Khashoggi will be executed. A son of the slain Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi said on Friday that he and his siblings [ More … ]
Former deputy head of Saudi Arabia’s general intelligence and former royal court adviser also accused in indictment. The Istanbul prosecutor’s office said it had prepared an indictment against 20 suspects over the killing of Saudi [ More … ]
Justice was “trampled” on with the death sentence meted out on Monday to five Saudis for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Paris-based media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders said. The group’s secretary general, Christophe [ More … ]
Confidential UAE document reveals Mohammed bin Salman is concerned the journalist’s murder could become a heavily debated topic during the upcoming US election The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman is determined to [ More … ]
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated over the killing of journalist Khashoggi, UN expert concludes. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated over the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a UN [ More … ]
Turkey arrested two intelligence operatives in Istanbul on Monday who confessed to spying on Arab nationals on behalf of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of whom is suspected of having connections to the murder [ More … ]
Another six months cannot pass without accountability for this abhorrent crime, says The Washington Post Six months after the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. President Donald Trump has still done nothing to hold [ More … ]
Saud al-Qahtani, a Saudi royal adviser fired over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is not among the 11 suspects on trial at secretive hearings in Riyadh despite Saudi pledges to bring those responsible to [ More … ]
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