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The disappearance and likely killing of Saudi journalist and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct 2 has shone the spotlight on how Saudi Arabia is buying influence in Washington by retaining an army of lobbyists and contributing to a legion of think-tanks...

The Saudi government has signalled it may admit to the accidental killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent critic of the Saudi royal family, but it denies murdering him in its consulate Turkey. The case has not only raised deep suspicions about the actions of Saudi Arabia, but also its ties to Washington and the Trump administration...

To the Editor: The Trump administration’s eagerness to bend over backward to accept the Saudi regime’s denials that it murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a United States resident and Washington Post journalist, is deeply troubling...

The president has been pushing back against public pressure to cancel weapon sales to Saudi Arabia in light of recent news that Saudi leaders may have ordered the assassination of a US resident and journalist who wrote for the Washington Post. Jamal Khashoggi, who fled the kingdom in 2017, often criticized Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for jailing hundreds of journalists and activists and for engaging in a brutal war in Yemen...

The United States and Saudi Arabia have had a mutually dependent relationship for seven decades based on a central bargain: the kingdom would pump oil and the superpower would provide security...

China, Russia, and the U.S. are already militarizing space. Here’s why that’s dangerous...

The fate of US – Saudi arms deal still up for debate as more bad news about the missing reporter, Jamal Khashoggi, is released by Turkish officials. The deal, worth USD 110 billion in arms sales over the next 10 years, may be canceled if Turkish reports linking Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman as the one who ordered the assassination are confirmed...

How the Saudis Buy Washington, DC...

Kalashnikov Concern — the Russian firm renowned for designing the AK-47 assault rifle — was caught off guard by U.S. Special Operations Command’s desire to “reverse engineer” and “domestically produce” Russian-styled weapons...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested he will accept the Saudi Arabian government’s denial of involvement in the presumed killing of Jamal Khashoggi — the dissident journalist who was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2...

China, Russia, and the U.S. are already militarizing space. Here’s why that’s dangerous.

When President Trump argues that the United States can’t halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the Saudis’ alleged murder of journalist and Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi, he’s giving up a key piece of leverage over Riyadh for no reason at all...