us-saudi relations improve as trump seals the gap left by obama
The CFR said the Trump administration embraced the new Saudi leadership of Mohammad bin Salman, popularly known as MBS. ..…
The CFR said the Trump administration embraced the new Saudi leadership of Mohammad bin Salman, popularly known as MBS. ..…
In some instances, the Saudi suspects had managed to abscond even after local or state courts had confiscated their passports — raising questions about whether Saudi diplomats were providing them with new ones. Several fugitives had slipped into Mexico, apparently to circumvent..…
A NEW SAUDI ARABIA? . Shortly after King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud came to power in January 2015, he moved Prince Mohammed into the royal line of succession. ..…
The new Saudi-American plan in eastern Syria doomed to fail . . September 16, 2019 . . ..…
Yet even as MBS was hailed as a sign of a new Saudi Arabia, the crown prince was systematically betraying this professed progressivism. ..…
By late 2015, American diplomats say, Prince Mohammed was also suggesting that the United Arab Emirates and a new Saudi leadership could be crucial in bringing the Palestinians around to some new peace agreement — the so-called “outside-in” approach to a deal. . ..…
What is disturbing about new Saudi arrests is that waves of arrests keep moving from most-known to successively lesser knowns, Saudi-American Nora Abdulkarim wrote on Twitter... ..…
The new Saudi regime has introduced tough measures to ‘saudi-ise’ its labour force and reduce employment opportunities for foreigners as well as make their residence conditions expensive and unappealing. ..…
Anthony Cordesman, “The New Saudi arms deal: Serving vital U.S. security interests,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, August 24, 2010. . ..…
One project, in fact, that the new Saudi Arabian crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman (MBS), might consider is assembling a panel to see if anything in the hadith, assembled during two hundred years after the death of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, might possibly be inauthentic. . ..…
New Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, Major Supporter of Al Qaeda By Wayne Madsen, January 28, 2015. ..…
It was an open support to the new Saudi King Salman and an effort to normalize strained ties between Turkey and Saudi Arabia over the coup d’état staged in Egypt in July 2013 by Saudi-supported Abdel Fattah al-Sisi against Turkey’s leading regional partner Mohammed Morsi. ..…
Khashoggi, while being painted as a sterling and debonair reformer, was an outspoken critic of the crown prince, a member of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, and rumored to be a sometime spy for various factions within the new Saudi regime, the Turks, the CIA, or some combination thereof. ...…
If Khashoggi’s brazen slaughter, carried out in utter disregard for international norms or the political cost for its allies, is a sign of a new Saudi playbook, the world may be facing an even greater threat than Saddam posed. ..…
If Khashoggi’s brazen slaughter, carried out in utter disregard for international norms or the political cost for its allies, is a sign of a new Saudi playbook, the world may be facing an even greater threat than Saddam posed. ..…
Reverting to Saudi Arabia, a royal decree of April 22, 2017 appointed Khalid bin Salman Al Saud -the son of the current King and former pilot of fighter aircraft, who demonstrated excellence in dangerous missions against the self-proclaimed Syrian-Iraqi Caliphate – as the new Saudi..…
“To say that I am skeptical of the new Saudi narrative about Mr Khashoggi is an understatement,” the Republican senator tweeted. . ..…
Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted: “To say that I am skeptical of the new Saudi narrative about Mr. ..…
It also sounds like the Muslim Brotherhood are trying to manipulate Westerners into having sympathy for one of their propagandists when the new Saudi regime ended a threat to them. ... It could also be the new Saudi regime tidying up a loose end who knew about the..…
May 21, 2007 update: New Saudi currency shows Al-Aqsa Mosque on one side of a note and the Dome of the Rock on the other. . ..…
“We sense the new [Saudi] team’s desire to move quickly,” Fabius said at the start of the Gulf summit. ..…
Erdoğan could look forward to receiving the thanks of the rest of the clan - and along with that new Saudi investments running into the billions... ..…
Erdoğan could look forward to receiving the thanks of the rest of the clan - and along with that new Saudi investments running into the billions... ..…
So, here we have the new Saudi Crown Prince doing more dirty work on Israel’s behalf, much as with his war in Yemen where he bombs civilians regularly, saving Israel from having to act on its own to get what it wants in someone else’s country. . ... Proxies—whether mercenary gangs..…
The estimations of the new Saudi leadership was that ‘we will decide the battle in Yemen. ..…
Those who have avoided prison have “all become ‘entrepreneurs,’ ” Fahad al-Fahad, a human-rights activist, told me, with bitter emphasis on a buzzword that has emerged as a clear favorite of the new Saudi leadership. . ..…
Western mainstream media continues to demonize him. ..…
Although the new Saudi Labor Code, which came into force in 2006, does not include a provision requiring sex segregation in the workplace, there is little evidence that this has in any way affected the current work environment, which remains highly segregated. ..…