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Saudi Arabia will buy Lockheed Martin’s $15 billion missile defense system, a U.S. Department of State spokesman said on Wednesday, after aggressive lobbying by the administration to close the deal that included a personal call between President Donald Trump and Saudi

The U.S. Senate took a defiant stance against President Donald Trump’s White House Wednesday, advancing a measure that would end American military support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Lawmakers agreed by a vote of 63-37 to allow debate to proceed

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday there was no direct evidence connecting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last month in Istanbul. Pompeo spoke to reporters after he and Defense Secretary

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman landed in Buenos Aires on Wednesday for the Group of 20 summit, Argentine state televsion reported, a visit fraught with controversy over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Human Rights Watch asked Argentina

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed the Istanbul meeting of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (COMCEC) on Wednesday. “As long as Muslims and people defend justice and freedom, Palestine will continue to exist,”

Russia will deploy more S-400s on the Crimean Peninsula, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday. News of the deployment comes after Ukraine introduced martial law for 30 days in parts of the country following Russia’s seizure of three Ukrainian navy vessels

fire ripped through the Ottoman-era Qaysari Bazaar in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk on Monday night, according to a local spokesman, damaging hundreds of stores. “More than 400 shops were gutted by the blaze,” Qais Kirkuki, a spokesman for the city’s

British MP on Tuesday claimed Facebook knew about potentially malicious Russian activity in 2014, long before such activity becomes public, during a parliamentary hearing where international lawmakers grilled the company. Damian Collins, head of a parliamentary inquiry into fake news and