Jamal Khashoggi

Under the 1976 Arms Export Control Act, the State Department must notify Congress 30 days before concluding an arms sale, which gives Congress the chance to vote on halting the weapons transfer. Under the rarely used provision, however, the president can cert…

US President Donald Trump, saying there is a national emergency because of tensions with Iran, is clearing the sale of billions of dollars worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other countries, US senators said on Friday, despit…

Three prominent moderate Saudi Sunni scholars held on multiple charges of terrorism will be sentenced to death and executed shortly after Ramadan, two government sources and one of the mens relatives have told Middle East Eye. The most prominent of these is …

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has been holding two Arab journalists for several months, global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Monday, amid ongoing international scrutiny of the kingdom’s human rights record. Yemeni Marwan al-Muraisy…

A senior Saudi official says the kingdom has no information about an Arab activist living in Norway who says the CIA tipped off Norwegian security about a threat against him emanating from Saudi Arabia. Responding to a question during a press conference in S…

This week WhatsApp users were on high alert after an attack was launched which could install spyware with just a missed call. The vulnerability was swiftly patched but it’s not yet clear how many people were affected by the attack. Now the Israeli firm linke…

RIYADH (Reuters) - A senior Saudi official denied the authorities posed any threat to prominent Palestinian human rights campaigner Iyad al-Baghdadi, who has said the Norwegian security services warned him of a threat against him from Saudi Arabia. “I’ve re…

Author Fran Lebowitz was a guest on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night and got herself in hot water when she spoke about President Trump. After addressing her reaction to the Mueller report and her dismay over how Attorney General William Barr handl…

The author was asked whether she thought the president should be impeached on Friday night’s show, and she responded that “impeachment would be just the beginning of what he deserves,” going on to suggest he be sent “over to the Saudis, his buddies – the same…

Liberal author Fran Lebowitz ignited controversy Friday when she suggested that President Donald Trump deserves to suffer the same gruesome fate as journalist Jamal Khashoggi. What did Lebowitz say? During a conversation about the president on HBO's "Real T…