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After weeks of lies, Saudi Arabia finally admits Khashoggi’s killing was planned

Contradicting itself yet again, Saudi Arabia on Thursday admitted that the plan to kill dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 was premeditated. This latest...

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Petition would rename Washington street where Saudi embassy is located in...

An online petition has collected more than 1,000 signatures to honor murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi by renaming the street in Washington, D.C. where the Saudi embassy is located after him. The...

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Trump calls Saudi Arabia ‘spectacular ally,’ denies he is plotting to kidnap...

Saudi Arabia is a “spectacular ally” whose leader may have commissioned the murder of a journalist with legal resident status in the U.S., President Donald Trump said Saturday. The CIA has concluded...

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Saudi state media is going after Sean Penn now that he decided to do...

Mired in what can only be termed as an international scandal and a total PR disaster owing to its murder of a dissident journalist and attempt to cover it up with a flurry of lies, Saudi Arabia chose...

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250,000 refugees to be sent back to Syria in 2019 despite enduring ‘climate...

As fighting has subsided in the bulk of the country, some 250,000 refugees might be returned to Syria in the new year, Reuters reported on Tuesday. If that feels like an ambitious aim for a country...

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Turkey says U.S. is looking for a way to extradite Erdogan nemesis

President Donald Trump has promised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his administration is looking into extraditing Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Muslim cleric Erdogan has accused of...

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This Trump-endorsed conspiracy theory about Michael Flynn just had a bad day...

It’s been a year since Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump‘s former national security adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Flynn reportedly promised “full cooperation” with special counsel...

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Saudi Arabia starts ‘sham trial’ of 11 men accused of killing Khashoggi

It’s been three months and one day since journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and was killed by a team of 15 of his fellow countrymen, allegedly at the behest of his...

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After Trump shakeups, Bolton and Pompeo head to the Middle East to reassure...

National Security Adviser John Bolton is heading to the Middle East this weekend, heading to Turkey and Israel to try to assure them that Trump administration policies aren’t catastrophic. Or, as...

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NBA player to skip team’s trip to London over fear ‘lunatic’ Turkish...

On January 17, the NBA will go international when the New York Knicks and Washington Wizards face off in a regular-season game in London, England. But one key player will not be making the trip,...

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