Tag: Jamal Khashoggi

Saturday, November 17th 2018 - 12:55 UTC
CIA finds Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince involved in killing of WP columnist

The CIA has come to the conclusion that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the assassination of Washington Post's Jamal Khashoggi, it was reported Friday.
Wednesday, November 14th 2018 - 08:38 UTC
Trump nominates retired Army general as ambassador to Saudi Arabia

United States president Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated a retired Army general to be the country’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, as Washington faces pressure to respond to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 08:19 UTC
Khashoggi's murder: Erdogan accuses highest level of Saudi government

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has for the first time accused the Saudi government directly of murdering journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “We know that the order to kill Khashoggi came from the highest levels of the Saudi government,” he wrote in an article in the Washington Post.
Friday, November 2nd 2018 - 08:56 UTC
Saudi Crown Prince told US, murdered writer Khashoggi was a dangerous Islamist

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told the US he considered murdered writer Jamal Khashoggi to be a dangerous Islamist, media reports say. Prince Mohammed reportedly said this in a phone call with the White House after Khashoggi disappeared but before Saudi Arabia admitted killing him.
Saturday, October 27th 2018 - 08:08 UTC
Khoshoggi's fiancée rejects Trump invitation; Turkish prosecutors want extradition of 18 Saudi suspects

Turkish prosecutors have prepared an extradition request for 18 suspects from Saudi Arabia in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, authorities said on Friday, after President Tayyip Erdogan urged Riyadh to disclose who ordered the murder.
Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 09:04 UTC
Khashoggi murder: Top US official meets Saudi Crown Prince in Riyadh

A senior US official has held talks with Saudi Arabia's crown prince in Riyadh, despite growing concern over the Saudis' role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met Mohammed bin Salman on Monday.
Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 08:53 UTC
Saudi Arabia: no intention of a repeat of a 1973-style oil embargo

Saudi Arabia has no intention of unleashing a 1973-style oil embargo on Western consumers and will isolate oil from politics, the Saudi energy minister said on Monday amid a worsening crisis over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Monday, October 22nd 2018 - 08:45 UTC
“Worse than a crime, a blunder”. No surprises if the Saudi family removes the Crown Prince

If Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), really did sent a hit team to Turkey to murder dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago, what will happen next? Perhaps history can help us here.
Saturday, October 20th 2018 - 07:00 UTC
Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi was killed at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman removed a key royal adviser and a senior intelligence official as the public prosecutor said an initial probe showed that journalist and government critic Jamal Khashoggi was killed at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.
Friday, October 19th 2018 - 02:29 UTC
Turkish police searching for Saudi journalist remains in outskirts of Istanbul

Turkish police are searching a forest on the outskirts of Istanbul and a city near the Sea of Marmara for remains of a Saudi dissident journalist who disappeared two weeks ago after entering the Saudi consulate, two Turkish officials said.