(CNN)Activists on two continents are trying to disrupt Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s first global tour since the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate last month. The tour — which includes visits to Arab-allied countries and the G20 summit in Argentina — is widely seen as an attempt by the Crown Prince to rehabilitate his image in the… Read more »
Yalova, Turkey (CNN)Police are searching a villa in northwest Turkey in connection with the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Istanbul’s Chief Prosecutor’s office said Monday that the villa was searched because one of the Saudi suspects in the killing contacted a Saudi national who resides near Samanli the day before Khashoggi was murdered. “We believe this contact was about… Read more »
A month and a half since digging in one of Raqqa‘s largest discovered mass graves began, grave diggers continue to exhume bodies, with one official saying that more than 500 bodies have been so far recovered. The operation in the city in northern Syria, once the de facto capital of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) armed group,… Read more »
Five international aid groups on Monday urged the United States government to halt all military support for a Saudi Arabia-UAE-led war in Yemen, saying this will save millions of lives. A joint statement by the International Rescue Committee, Oxfam America, CARE US, Save the Children, and the Norwegian Refugee Council said that 14 million people are at risk of starving to death in… Read more »
Beirut, Lebanon – “Do you see the empty chair with a guitar next to it? Only the musician is missing.” In the middle of her living room surrounded by dozens of paintings in her apartment in Haret Hreik, a suburb in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, Mariam Saidi describes her art, which is dedicated to her son. “This one shows the Last Supper, but everything… Read more »
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who wrote critically of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), entered Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul on October 2. He was not seen since. Below is a summary of how Saudi Arabia’s narrative surrounding the circumstances of Khashoggi’s death changed over the weeks as international pressure mounted. October 2 Khashoggi entered Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul to pick up… Read more »
Occupied West Bank – Rows of Israeli flags mark the entrance to the Ahava Visitor Center a few hundred metres from the northwestern banks of the Dead Sea. Inside, the cosmetics manufacturer sells “With Love from Israel” skincare gift sets to the American, Russian and Korean tourist groups that arrive in buses every 10 minutes or so. For the unsuspecting visitor, it is not easy to tell that… Read more »
Some Saudi women have launched a protest against the abaya – a long loose-fitting robe used to cover their bodies in public – by saying that they will wear it inside out. Under the hashtag “inside-out abaya” they have posted pictures of the robe, which they feel under pressure to wear. In March Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the… Read more »
Top American officials called for a ceasefire in Yemen and demanded warring parties immediately come to the negotiating table. The comments came as the Saudi-Emirati-led military coalition deployed more than 10,000 new troops towards a vital rebel-held port city in the run-up to a new assault. James Mattis, the Pentagon chief, said the US had been watching the conflict “for long enough”, adding he… Read more »
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s top prosecutor on Wednesday laid out the most detailed description yet of how the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed, saying Saudi agents strangled him almost immediately after he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and then dismembered his body. But the new information did not address the question that has bedeviled investigators and been the subject of furious… Read more »