“The Saudi-led coalition had hoped that Saleh’s break with the Houthis would be a turning point, isolating the rebels” but instead he has been killed as a traitor with a brutality recalling the murder of Qaddafi:<\/p>\n
“If Washington recognises Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, it would be the first country to do so since the foundation of the state in 1948” …<\/p>\n
… “\u00c2\u00a0Mahmoud Abbas, Jordan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s King Abdullah, … President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and … King Salman, who all received phone calls from Trump, joined a mounting chorus of voices warning that unilateral U.S. steps on Jerusalem would derail a fledgling U.S.-led peace effort and unleash turmoil in the region”:<\/p>\n
Relationships such as grandparents and cousins “will no longer provide a blanket exemption from the ban, although visa officials can make exceptions on a case-by-case basis”:<\/p>\n
“[A]uthoritarian modernizers cannot simply command a new attitude among their citizens. Opening cinemas and relaxing gender segregation may impress Saudi youth, but a new economy requires far more”:<\/p>\n
“[T]he British royal family is descended from Mohammed through the Arab kings of Seville, who once ruled Spain”:<\/p>\n
“Pompeo has close ties with Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, who has argued<\/a> that following Islamic law is ‘an impermissible act of sedition, which has to be prosecuted'”:<\/p>\n