A senior Saudi Arabian government official has laid out a new version of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, that in key respects contradicts previous explanations. The latest account, provided by a Saudi official who requested anonymity, includes details on how the team of 15 Saudi nationals sent to […]

The outpouring of anger and outrage over Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and subsequent killing inside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Turkey is unprecedented. The 60-year-old journalist, who had been critical of Saudi crown prince Mohammad Bin Salman, walked inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 afternoon to complete paperwork ahead of his marriage. […]

Turkish investigators are likely to find out what happened to the body of Jamal Khashoggi before long, a senior official said on Saturday, after Saudi Arabia admitted for the first time that the journalist had been killed in its Istanbul consulate. The official, who declined to be identified, also told Reuters that Khashoggi’s DNA samples […]

 Saudi Arabia admitted journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul, saying he died in brawl but made no mention of where his body is. Kingdom sacked intelligence official and arrested 18 Saudis saying missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in a ‘fist fight’. “Discussions that took place between him and […]

 The Foreign Ministers of Germany, France and Great Britain have issued a joint statement on disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi. The following is the full text of the three European countries’ foreign ministers’ statement on the disappearance of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi: “Defending freedom of expression and a free press and ensuring the protection of journalists are […]

Saudi Arabia has seen large-scale domestic developments since King Salman came to power, and then along came Mohammad bin Salman with his radical views. Since then there has been slaughter and arrests and imprisonment of dissident opponents. Riyadh rulers don’t tolerate the slightest criticisms. Critics are seen as traitors by Saudi media and usually the […]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize called for the international community to pressure Saudi officials about a journalist’s disappearance after he entered Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate. “If (Jamal) Khashoggi is being held, we demand his immediate release,” said Tawakkol Karman, a human rights activist from Yemen, The Peninsula reported on […]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on Riyadh to prove its claim that Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who has been missing since last week, left the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The disappearance of Khashoggi, previously a prominent newspaper editor in Saudi Arabia and an adviser to its former head of […]

Authorities in Turkey have indicated that Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist known for his criticism of then kingdom, could have been killed at Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul where he went missing in on Tuesday. Two Turkish sources said on Saturday that they believed that Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate. One source told […]