December 15, 2025 8:04 am
President Trump secured his headline soundbite that Saudi Arabia is ready to invest $1 trillion in the US economy, confirming his view of MbS as a modern-day Croesus. Upon closer examination, however, all Saudi investments will be tied to the Kingdom’s development goals and will not consist of long-term placements in the US
November 20, 2025 10:02 pm
Trump may loudly broadcast his disdain, but many of his predecessors cloaked actions as bad in the language of freedom, democracy and “American leadership”. Their legacies, even when their toxic after-effects are felt by successive generations, are protected partly by the outrageousness of Trump himself
December 07, 2022 7:32 am
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has denied ordering Jamal Khashoggi's killing but acknowledged later that it took place "under my watch."
November 18, 2022 3:59 pm
Justice Department lawyers said that the executive branch of US government had "determined that defendant bin Salman, as the sitting head of a foreign government, enjoys head of state immunity from the jurisdiction of U.S. courts as a result of that office."
October 04, 2022 12:53 pm
Khashoggi was killed and dismembered by Saudi agents in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in an operation which U.S. intelligence believed was ordered by Prince Mohammed, who has been the kingdom's de facto ruler for several years.
July 28, 2022 7:50 pm
The Washington-based group, Democracy for the Arab World Now, or DAWN, called on French authorities to open a criminal investigation of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who was scheduled to meet French President Emmanuel Macron for a working dinner later Thursday.
July 17, 2022 8:50 pm
U.S. intelligence agencies believe Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing in 2018 of Khashoggi, a Saudi insider-turned-critic who had been living in self-imposed exile in Virginia.
July 17, 2022 5:41 pm
The Abu Dhabi Money Laundering Court also ordered that the lawyer, U.S. citizen Asim Ghafoor, pay a fine of $816,748 stemming from his in absentia conviction.
July 17, 2022 2:48 pm
Biden has been denounced by rights groups, media organizations and politicians in both parties for meeting with the crown prince, who the CIA said ordered the 2018 operation that killed Khashoggi, a U.S. resident and columnist for The Washington Post.
July 16, 2022 4:00 pm
Rights groups say the UAE has jailed hundreds of activists, academics and lawyers in unfair trails on broad charges.
June 22, 2020 6:13 pm
The Turkish and Saudi officials on Monday revealed that the team of agents that killed US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi brought his body double to execute their plan.
June 22, 2020 6:13 pm
The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident, made international headlines. From jet conspiracies to blaming Qatar, here’s how Saudi Arabia’s news media is portraying the story.



