By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The US Senate voted Thursday to withdraw American support for Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, in a rebuke to President Donald Trump. It’s the first time the Senate has voted to withdraw forces from a war Congress didn’t approve.
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES With billions of dollars of Saudi Arabian investments on the line, President Trump declared Tuesday he is standing with the Kingdom despite a recent CIA report implicating the country’s crown prince in the murder of journalist Jamal
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Pressure is mounting on President Trump and Saudi Arabia after a damning CIA report implicated the Kingdom’s Crown Prince in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. According to the Washington Post, the CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES President Trump’s top diplomat Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was all smiles with a look of determination on his face as he met with members of Saudi Arabia’s leadership Tuesday. Pompeo was dispatched to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Tuesday in Riyadh to discuss the disappearance of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi. President Trump dispatched Pompeo to Saudi Arabia’s
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES In an apparent effort to keep U.S.-Saudi relations intact, President Trump Monday backed away from statements he made over the weekend threatening Riyadh with “severe punishment” if the Kingdom were found to be involved in the killing
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Saudi Arabia is in a diplomatic nightmare as it scrambles to explain to the world what happened to missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The situation is also stretching diplomatic relations between the Kingdom and the United States to the