Jamal Khashoggi

The widow of slain Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi Monday filed a legal complaint in France accusing Saudi Arabia of using Israeli spyware to steal data from her phones before he was killed, her lawyers said. Hanan Elatr Khashoggi, whose husband was murdered at the kingdom's Istanbul consulate in October 2018,…

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to the Middle East as Israel continues to carry out attacks in Gaza. Since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire went into effect, Israel has killed more than 342 civilians there, including 67 children. In…

BEIRUT  — Seven years ago, he was virtually persona non grata, any link to him considered kryptonite among U.S. political and business elite for his alleged role in the killing of a Washington Post columnist and Saudi critic. But when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman came to Washington this week, he…

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Democratic lawmaker who served on Donald Trump’s National Security Council in his first term urged the White House on Friday to release a transcript of Trump’s 2019 call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing. "The Khashoggi family and…

In October of 2018, U.S.-based journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Istanbul, Turkey. The CIA concluded that the assassination was carried out by Saudi operatives, on order of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The prince denied the accusations, although other U.S.…

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair James Risch (R-Idaho) on Wednesday objected to what he called an “inappropriate” request by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) to commemorate slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a resident of Virginia, during Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington. Kaine stood up on the Senate…

Donald Trump’s claim Tuesday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “knew nothing about” the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi may be undercut by a phone call he had with the monarch. Democratic Representative Eugene Vindman said in a speech on the House floor Tuesday night that he reviewed the…

Saudi Arabia has lifted a travel ban on a US citizen who criticized the kingdom on social media, his family said Wednesday, as President Donald Trump welcomed the crown prince. Saad Ibrahim Almadi, a US citizen of Saudi origin, had been arrested during a visit to his native country in…

LONDON — A former United Nations investigator who wrote the authoritative report on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi told NBC News on Wednesday that she was “shocked and angry” at President Donald Trump’s dismissal of intelligence saying Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing. Agnès Callamard, the…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed US intelligence findings that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman likely had some culpability in the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi as Trump warmly welcomed the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia on his first White House visit in seven years. The…