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'Capture or kill': U.S. report says Saudi crown prince targeted Jamal Khashoggi Chris Megerian, Tracy Wilkinson © Provided by The LA Times Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has never acknowledged ordering the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (Charles Platiau / PBS) The Biden administration Friday sanctioned Saudi officials, but not the kingdom's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after releasing an intelligence report concluding he was responsible for the grisly murder. The restrained response to a crime that c...

By CHRIS MEGERIAN AND TRACY WILKINSON | Los Angeles Times | Published: February 25, 2021 WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is expected to release an unclassified intelligence report as soon as Thursday establishing that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, directed the killing of the dissident U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A classified version of the report was completed shortly after Khashoggi was lured into a Saudi consulate in Turkey and killed by a team of assassins on Oct. 2, 2018. But the Trump administration bottled up the findings, reflecting the former...

South Korea is negotiating an agreement to release billions of dollars of Iranian assets frozen because of U.S. sanctions, a deal widely seen as linked to Seoul’s attempts to secure the release of an ethanol tanker and crew seized by regime forces in the Strait of Hormuz early this year.

Iranian public opinion in the Biden era Wed, Feb 24, 2021 1:30 PM A discussion surrounding the polling data on Iranian public opinion by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland. As the global community continues to grapple with the coronavirus (COVID-19), the Atlantic Council is open for business. Our business, meetings, and events, however, are occurring virtually. For more information, please read an update from our President and CEO. The election of President Biden has raised expectations for a restoration of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and a de-escal...

Hady Amr, the Biden administration’s deputy assistant secretary of state for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, is coming in with a fresh perspective, regional relationships and years of experience – and he has a lot of work to do