Tag: Middle East

United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura speaks at a Security Council meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 at U.N. headquarters.

Beltway Confidential

Man resigns from world’s most impossible job: Fixing Syria

Daniel DePetris · October 19, 2018 6:35 pm

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said students who are rallying for gun control should instead learn CPR to help protect their classmates during a school shooting.

Rick Santorum rejects CNN claim that Trump’s anti-media rhetoric was a factor in Jamal Khashoggi’s death

Katelyn Caralle · October 19, 2018 12:58 pm

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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What the Israelis and Jordanians would teach Saudi intelligence officers

Tom Rogan · October 18, 2018 8:43 pm

In a frame from surveillance camera footage taken Oct. 2, 2018, and published Thursday by the pro-government Turkish newspaper Sabah, a man identified by Turkish officials as Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, walks toward the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul before writer Jamal Khashoggi disappeared.

Aide to Saudi crown prince seen entering Istanbul consulate hours before Khashoggi

Katelyn Caralle · October 18, 2018 4:52 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters while his plane refuels in Brussels, Belgium Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018.

Mike Pompeo merges Jerusalem embassy with outpost to Palestinians

Joel Gehrke · October 18, 2018 2:45 pm

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to members of the media about Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018.

Lindsey Graham feels ‘betrayed’ by Saudi Arabia after Jamal Khashoggi disappearance

Katelyn Caralle · October 18, 2018 12:49 pm

President Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Washington.

National Security

Trump says it ‘would be bad’ if Saudi leaders knew about missing journalist

Robert Donachie · October 16, 2018 8:23 pm

Summer Zervos and Donald Trump.

Jeff Flake: Keep Mnuchin out of Saudi Arabia

Diana Stancy Correll · October 16, 2018 7:44 pm

In this March 7, 2018, file photo, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives to meet Prime Minister Theresa May outside 10 Downing Street in London.

Saudis consider saying journalist was killed by mistake

Caitlin Yilek · October 15, 2018 9:30 pm

Holding a picture of missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, Tawakkol Karman, of Yemen the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2011, talks to members of the media near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. Khashoggi, a 59-year-old veteran journalist who has lived in self-imposed exile in the U.S. since Prince Mohammed's rise to power, disappeared Oct. 2 while on a visit to the consulate to get paperwork done to be married to his Turkish fiancÃ©e.

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Don’t punish the UAE and Bahrain for Saudi misdeeds

Michael Rubin · October 15, 2018 7:12 pm

Ali Mohammed, 48, builds an oud, an Arabic instrument related to the lute, at his workshop in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. Mohammed says "the demand for Oud has risen after the defeating of IS in Iraq" he, makes around 400 U.S. dollars by selling one handmade oud every month.

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Iraq has moved on. Will our foreign policy debate?

Michael Rubin · October 15, 2018 4:32 pm

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner watches a ceremony at the Royal Court Palace.

Khashoggi crisis is a reckoning for Jared Kushner

Joel Gehrke · October 12, 2018 9:05 pm