PRESS ROOM

Mister Bone Saw. That’s what many people around the world are calling Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince...

Donald Trump's statements and actions are so blatantly awful, so thoroughly misguided and immoral, that he gets blasted from a spectrum of political commentators, from the far left all the way to Lindsey Graham (R-SC). But through all the criticism, little is said about what should be done...

He has secured critical backing for a vote to block US support for attacks that are worsening a humanitarian crisis...

The move to shift oversight of firearms exports from the State Department to the Commerce Department could potentially fuel weapons trafficking, opponents say.

The Saudi regime’s murder of Jamal Khashoggi and its continued killing of civilians in Yemen has drawn unprecedented scrutiny to the U.S.-Saudi military relationship. This report looks at that relationship in closer detail, with an eye towards how it creates leverage that the U.S. can use to change Saudi conduct and end the Yemen war...

Leaders in Riyadh and Washington have been strong business partners since Franklin D. Roosevelt cut an oil deal with King Abdulaziz bin Abd al-Rahman al-Saud in 1945. Following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last month, President Donald Trump has pledged to protect that relationship, preserving cordial relations with Saud’s grandson, Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi Crown Prince...

The 116th Congress will seat more women than ever before—at least 125, an increase of 18. These women will be a more diverse group, among them 43 women of color, including the first two Muslim congresswomen, first two Native American congresswomen, first black congresswomen from Massachusetts and Connecticut, first two Latina congresswomen from Texas, and the youngest congresswoman...

Mexico's government has asked the US to launch "a full investigation" into the use of tear gas canisters over the weekend that Border Patrol agents lobbed over the fence into Mexico near the San Diego port of entry. On three different occasions, Trump defended the use of tear gas and blamed the refugees for their plight on Monday.

Reducing U.S. military sales to Saudi Arabia would have a relatively minor effect on the defense industry, whose gains from such transactions have been exaggerated by President Donald Trump, according to recent reports...

A group of Honduran military police officers — dressed in army fatigues, their faces covered in black masks — jumped from the back of pickup trucks around 11 p.m. on Dec. 1, 2017, witnesses say...

Trump expanded significance of Saudi arms disposal to US job market. US arms trade to Saudi Arabia offered Washington immense control on Riyadh, while reckoning for scarcely any than 20,000 US jobs a year, less than a twentieth of the occupation boost Donald Trump has professed...

“Saudi Arabia must face the damage from the past three-plus years of war in Yemen.” These words opened the last column by Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi published while he was still alive...