World / Social Issues Jan 14, 2022
In deeply conservative Saudi Arabia, the religious police once elicited terror, chasing men and women out of malls to pray and berating anyone seen mingling with the opposite sex.
World / Crime & Legal Dec 8, 2021
Saudi Arabia says France arrested wrong man over Jamal Khashoggi murder
The Saudi Embassy in Paris issued a statement saying the man arrested "has nothing to do with the case in question" and demanded his immediate release.
World / Social Issues Oct 15, 2021
Change is underway in the Islamic kingdom, which is easing some strict social strictures while simultaneously cracking down on dissent.
World / Crime & Legal Aug 14, 2021
For a crime at 14, he faces death in a case casting doubt on Saudi reforms
by Asmaa Al-Omar and Ben Hubbard
Rights groups cite the case as an example of Saudi Arabia continuing to execute people for crimes committed as minors, despite legal overhauls aimed at limiting the practice.
Commentary / World Mar 25, 2021
Biden’s U.S.-Saudi re-calibration
by Bernard Haykel
Biden, like every other U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, realizes that Saudi Arabia is vital to maintaining American strategic interests.
World Mar 2, 2021
U.S. presses Saudis over Khashoggi killing amid calls to punish prince
President Joe Biden has sought to "recalibrate" the decades-old alliance and has also said the U.S. will end support for offensive operations in the Saudi war in Yemen.
World / Politics | FOCUS Feb 28, 2021
Murder in the consulate: Pressure grows on Saudi crown prince
Saudi Arabia's crown prince, accused in a U.S. intelligence report of approving an operation to capture or kill a prominent journalist, crushed dissent and sidelined rivals in a push for power that has delighted admirers, unsettled Riyadh's traditional foreign allies and shocked human rights ...
World / Politics | FOCUS Feb 28, 2021
Jamal Khashoggi, whose gruesome 2018 murder was "approved" by Saudi Arabia's crown prince, according to a U.S. intelligence report, was a prominent journalist and critic of the ultraconservative kingdom's government. The 59-year-old Washington Post contributor went into self-imposed exile in the United States in 2017 ...
World / Politics | ANALYSIS Feb 28, 2021
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may have been spared direct punishment after a U.S. intelligence report implicated him in the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but he has not emerged unscathed. The declassified report, based on CIA intelligence, concludes that the prince approved ...
World Feb 27, 2021
U.S. says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi murder but spares him sanctions
Washington for the first time publicly accused Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of approving the gruesome murder, unveiling a raft of punitive measures.
World Feb 26, 2021
Biden and Saudi King Salman talk by phone ahead of Khashoggi report
The Saudi journalist and U.S. resident was lured to the Saudi mission in Istanbul in 2018 then killed and dismembered by agents linked to the Saudi crown prince.
World / Politics Feb 18, 2021
U.S. President Joe Biden intends to "recalibrate” Washington's relationship with Saudi Arabia and will emphasize outreach to King Salman, in a move that signals a downgrade in ties with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the country’s de facto ruler. It is the latest sign Biden’s ...