The Wall Street Journal | Karen Elliott House: Lower prices put U.S. producers at a disadvantage, but they also cost Riyadh and imperil ties with the U.S. President Trump is playing a tense poker game with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The stakes are Americas oil industry and the U.S.-Saudi alliance. The 34-year-old prince and the president ...

The National Interest | Daniel R. DePetris: The United States has a big problem in the Middle East. His name: Mohammed Bin Salman. The young Saudi crown prince once praised by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman as an Arab version of Nelson Mandela (my words, not his) is back in the news again. And as has become common fare for Bin Salman, ...

The Wall Street Journal - Saudi Arabias verdict this week in the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi isnt going to erase the stain on the reputation of the Kingdom or its de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. A Saudi judge sentenced five men to death in the killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and three more to prison. None ...

Euronews | Helena Skinner: Yemens Saudi-backed government and southern separatists signed an agreement on Tuesday to end a power struggle in the south of Yemen that risked opening a new front in the multifaceted conflict. Saudi Arabias crown prince hailed the deal as a step toward a wider political solution to end the war, but what does this deal ...

Al-Monitor | Hamed A. Kermani: In pursuit of peace building, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan had a hectic week visiting Tehran and Riyadh earlier this month. He arrived Oct. 13 in Tehran, where he met Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. As he left Tehran, Khan said, I will go to Saudi Arabia with a positive ...

The National Interest | Mohammed Ayoob: A series of missteps has undermined the Kingdom when it can least afford it. In 680 CE, less than fifty years after the death of Prophet Muhammad, an army of over thirty thousand men was deployed by thirty-three-year-old Umayyad Caliph Yazid to confront a tiny group of seventy-two people led by the prophets ...

IRNA Former Iranian Ambassador to Jordan Nosratollah Tajik said on Monday that Saudi Government opted for deescalation with Iran though they do not want to restore relations. Tajik made the remarks in an exclusive interview with IRNA. He said that regional and international developments such as US' internal developments, US administration passive ...

Tasnim Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said on Tuesday he welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmans willingness to resolve issues with Iran through talks. We welcome Mohammed bin Salman being quoted as saying he wants to resolve issues through talks with Tehran, Larijani told Al Jazeera on Tuesday. Any dialogue between Iran and ...

Euronews - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said he takes full responsibility for the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the country's Istanbul consulate last year, but denied ordering his killing. "This was a heinous crime, "the crown prince told CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday. "I take full responsibility as a leader in ...

The Wall Street Journal | Jared Malsin and Summer Said: Saudi Arabias Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has edged away from a possible military confrontation with Iran as the kingdom seeks to cool regional tensions and rehabilitate its image a year after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The crown prince, Saudi Arabias de facto leader, voiced ...

Press TV - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has gained notoriety for pledging to take the kingdoms political and ideological war with Iran inside the Islamic Republics borders, is hiring Reza Pahlavi, son of Irans ousted despot Mohammad Reza Shah, to make a television show aimed at sowing discord among the Iranian people. The show is ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry spokesperson dismissed the accusations that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has recently levelled against Tehran, slamming them as an attempt to whitewash the disastrous results of the Saudi kingdoms wrong policies. In a statement on Monday, Abbas Mousavi said Bin Salmans hostile remarks are the continuation ...

PressTV - Saudi authorities are likely to execute a teenager who has been held in pre-trial detention for almost four years, as a brutal crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals widens in the kingdom. Murtaja Qureiris is currently being tried at a terror court, where ...

Press TV - Saudi officials are reportedly set to sentence three imprisoned dissident scholars to death and execute them shortly after the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan as a brutal crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against Muslim preachers and intellectuals widens in the kingdom. The London-based online news outlet Middle East ...

RT - Riyadh has drawn outrage from human rights advocates after it put to death 37 people and displayed a mutilated body of one of them on a pole. The execution was carried out after "sham trials," Amnesty International said. The ultra-conservative kingdom on Tuesday beheaded 37 of its citizens in its biggest mass execution in three years and ...

Sputnik - US President Donald Trump discussed maintaining pressure on Iran, human rights issues and Middle East stability in a phone conversation with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the White House said in a press release. "President Donald Trump had a productive conversation with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed", the release said on Tuesday....

Press TV - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly been stripped of some his powers and has not attended a series of high-profile ministerial and diplomatic meetings in the kingdom over the last fortnight, fueling speculation of a growing rift between the controversial prince and the king. The Guardian reported on Monday that Saudi ...

Alwaght - According to the media reports, rift between the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and his son Mohammed has intensified recently. The home struggle erupted when King Abdullah, during his trip to Egypt for EU-Arab League summit, was warned about a possible coup by his advisors. The kings circle of insiders, worried about the possible power ...

MNA Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in China on Thursday, on the third leg of his Asia tour that started in Pakistan. At the airport, he was greeted by a number of Chinese officials, including Khi Li Fung, Deputy Chairman of the Advisory and Political Council of the People's Republic of China, and Chinese Ambassador to the Kingdom ...

Alwaght - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Islamabad on Sunday amid tight security that reportedly the Prime Minister Imran Khan personally supervised. The visit to Pakistan, ushering in a tour that will take the de facto Saudi ruler to the Southeast Asian states and China, is of resounding significance to Pakistan. The Pakistani ...