Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Saudi prince uses fund to expand power, commit abuses: HRW

A 93-page report from the New York-based group describes how Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has asserted control over the Public Investment Fund (PIF), which now manages assets worth around $925 billion compared with $84 billion a decade ago.

Former top Saudi intel official terms Prince Salman “a psychopath”

An ex-Saudi intelligence chief described Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “a psychopath” during an interview with CBS News that aired a few days prior to US President Joe Biden visiting the Kingdom.

KSA seeks death for Khashoggi killing

Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for five out of 11 suspects charged in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, his office said yesterday, as the kingdom tries to contain its biggest political crisis in a generation.

Saudi women celebrate uplifting of driving ban

Saudi Arabian women celebrates being able to drive for the first time in decades today, as the kingdom overturnes the world's only ban on female motorists, a historic reform expected to usher in a new era of social mobility.

Saudi Arabia's Perilous Pivot

The most dangerous moment for a bad government,” the nineteenth-century French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville observed, “is usually when it begins to reform itself.” Reform, after all, implies that traditional norms and institutions may have already been discredited, but that alternative structures have yet to be firmly established.

November 20, 2024
November 20, 2024

Saudi prince uses fund to expand power, commit abuses: HRW

A 93-page report from the New York-based group describes how Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has asserted control over the Public Investment Fund (PIF), which now manages assets worth around $925 billion compared with $84 billion a decade ago.

July 12, 2022
July 12, 2022

Former top Saudi intel official terms Prince Salman “a psychopath”

An ex-Saudi intelligence chief described Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “a psychopath” during an interview with CBS News that aired a few days prior to US President Joe Biden visiting the Kingdom.

November 16, 2018
November 16, 2018

KSA seeks death for Khashoggi killing

Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for five out of 11 suspects charged in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, his office said yesterday, as the kingdom tries to contain its biggest political crisis in a generation.

June 24, 2018
June 24, 2018

Saudi women celebrate uplifting of driving ban

Saudi Arabian women celebrates being able to drive for the first time in decades today, as the kingdom overturnes the world's only ban on female motorists, a historic reform expected to usher in a new era of social mobility.

April 10, 2018
April 10, 2018

Saudi Arabia's Perilous Pivot

The most dangerous moment for a bad government,” the nineteenth-century French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville observed, “is usually when it begins to reform itself.” Reform, after all, implies that traditional norms and institutions may have already been discredited, but that alternative structures have yet to be firmly established.