Arguments wrapped up Friday in a case before the International Court of Justice over an airspace blockade against Qatar, as the peninsular nation urged the United Nations’ highest court to let an aviation agency resolve the dispute.
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Several Persian Gulf nations returned to the International Court of Justice on Tuesday for Qatar’s opening arguments in its challenge to an airspace blockade imposed by its neighbors.
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Four Middle Eastern countries delivered the first round of oral arguments Monday before the International Court of Justice in a dispute over airspace restrictions, claiming the court has jurisdiction to take up their case against Qatar.
Read moreA former Twitter employee accused of helping Saudi Arabia spy on its critics will go home to his family in Seattle after a two-week saga in which four federal judges ordered him to be released from jail.
Read moreThree judges have ordered a man accused of helping Saudi Arabia spy on its critics be released from jail, but the man’s fate now lies in the hands of a fourth federal judge: U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday ordered a man accused of helping Saudi Arabia spy on its critics be released from jail – but stayed his decision for seven days to give prosecutors time to appeal.
Read moreClaiming federal prosecutors are “torpedoing” the court process, a federal judge said Tuesday he will release a former Twitter employee accused of helping Saudi Arabia spy on dissidents unless the government brings him to San Francisco by next week.
Read moreUber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is being criticized for calling the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi “a mistake” and comparing it to the death of a pedestrian struck by one of his company’s autonomous vehicles.
Read moreArguing that Saudi Arabia has helped many flee the U.S. to escape prosecution, the Justice Department immediately appealed a magistrate judge’s decision Friday to release a former Twitter employee accused of helping Saudi Arabia spy on its critics.
Read moreThe Justice Department announced indictments of three men who illegally smuggled rifle parts from the United States to Saudi Arabia and tried to pass the items off as shower curtain rods or car parts.
Read moreThree Saudi Arabians — Hatim Humeed Alsufyani, 36, Mosab Alzahrani, 27, and Abdulwahab Mohammed A. Alabdulwahab, 30 — face criminal charges of buying more than $100,000 in weapons parts in the United States while on student visas and smuggling them to Saudi Arabia, federal prosecutors said in Los Angeles.
Read moreTwo former Twitter employees face federal charges of misusing their access to users’ private data to help Saudi Arabia spy on its critics.
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The long-planned initial public offering of a sliver of Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil giant Saudi Aramco will see shares traded on Riyadh’s stock exchange in December, a Saudi-owned satellite news channel reported Tuesday as the kingdom’s marquee investment forum got underway.
Read moreA Saudi Arabian who was granted political asylum in Canada sued Twitter and McKinsey & Co. in federal court for privacy invasion and fraud, claiming they exposed him and his family to violent retaliation, such as happened to his friend and colleague Jamal Khashoggi.
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Two missiles struck an Iranian tanker traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia on Friday, Iranian officials said, the latest incident in the region amid months of heightened tensions between Tehran and the United States.
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in a television interview Sunday that he takes “full responsibility” for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but denied allegations that he ordered it.
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The White House severely restricted distribution of memos detailing President Donald Trump’s calls with foreign leaders, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman, after embarrassing leaks of his conversations early in his tenure, a former White House official said.
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The United States is sending a Patriot missile battery and four ground-based radar systems to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said Thursday, calling it the first steps to help the kingdom protect itself from Iranian attacks.
Read moreThe Pentagon on Friday announced it will deploy additional U.S. troops and missile defense equipment to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as President Donald Trump has at least for now put off any immediate military strike on Iran in response to the attack on the Saudi oil industry.
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