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FILE - In this March 29, 2014 file photo, Aziza al-Yousef drives a car on a highway during a women's rights campaign in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her son, Salah al-Haidar, a dual U.S.-Saudi citizen, is set to go on trial Thursday in a court established to try terrorism cases in the Saudi capital, Riyadh on charges related to alleged social media posts criticizing the government. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Trump is urged to intervene in trial of US-Saudi national

By AYA BATRAWY and ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

A woman walks past a banner showing Saudi King Salman, right, and his Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, outside a mall in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Monday, June 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) ** FILE **

Saudi Arabia: G-20 gathering of world leaders to be virtual

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

In this June 28, 2019, photo President Donald Trump arrives to greet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Coronavirus pandemic pushes annual G-20 summit to go virtual

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this image made from UNTV video, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, speaks in a pre-recorded message which was played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, at UN headquarters. (UNTV via AP)

Saudi king’s rare address to UN showcases monarch in charge

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 25, 2019 file photo, Muslim worshippers circumambulate the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the minor pilgrimage, known as Umrah in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Authorities on Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, released new details on how it plans to gradually allow Muslims back to Islam's holiest site in Mecca to perform the smaller-year-round pilgrimage, which has been suspended for the past seven months due to the coronavirus (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Saudi Arabia to lift ban on Mecca pilgrimage amid virus

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, President Donald Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan react on the Blue Room Balcony after signing the Abraham Accords during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Road to Saudi ties with Israel being paved, cautiously

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 25, 2019 file photo, Muslim worshippers circumambulate the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the minor pilgrimage, known as Umrah in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Authorities on Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, released new details on how it plans to gradually allow Muslims back to Islam's holiest site in Mecca to perform the smaller-year-round pilgrimage, which has been suspended for the past seven months due to the coronavirus (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Saudi Arabia to launch app for Mecca pilgrims amid virus

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Trump and MBS are changing Saudi Arabia and the Middle East illustration by The Washington Times

Tracking Trump and MBS’ human rights revolution in Saudi Arabia

By Sam Faddis

US judge: Saudi royals must answer questions in 9/11 lawsuit

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Ethiopia thanks Saudi Arabia over migrants despite treatment

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

The captain of the El Al airliner, which will carry U.S. and Israeli delegations to the United Arab Emirates, waves to spectators as the plane prepares to take off on the first-ever commercial flight from Israel to the UAE, at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/Pool via AP)

Saudi Arabia says flights to, from UAE can fly over kingdom

By Isabel Debre and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

2 Saudi royals, others officials investigated for fraud

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 24, 2020 file photo, empty seats during the English Premier League soccer match between Newcastle United and Aston Villa at St James' Park stadium in NewCastle, England. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has withdrawn its bid to buy English Premier League club Newcastle after the process was stalled by concerns about piracy by the kingdom and human rights complaints. The league has spent four months considering whether to approve the 300 million pound takeover that would have seen Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund gain an 80% take in the northeast club. (Lindsey Parnaby/Pool via AP, File)

EPL breaks silence on reasons for stalled Newcastle takeover

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FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2019 file photo, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during the talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A former top Saudi counterterrorism official has filed a federal lawsuit, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020, in the United States against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, alleging the royal tried to find, trap and kill him on U.S. and Canadian soil. The lawsuit filed by former intelligence official Saad Aljabri is his latest effort to try and bring about international and public pressure on the young crown prince.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

Federal suit filed against Saudi crown prince by ex-official

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Players warm up before the English Premier League soccer match between Newcastle and Liverpool at St. James' Park in Newcastle, England, Sunday, July 26, 2020. (Laurence Griffiths, Pool via AP)

Saudis’ Newcastle bid ends after piracy, human rights issues

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Imagine a world without an Iran embargo illustration by The Washington Times

Ending the arms embargo on Iran would destabilize the Middle East and threaten world peace

By Sam Faddis

FILE - This Jan. 30, 2018, file image made from a video shows fighters loyal to the separatist so-called Southern Transitional Council, backed by the United Arab Emirates, chanting after taking control of Mount Hadid in Aden which was controlled by forces loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, in Aden Yemen. Yemen’s leading separatist group will abandon its aspirations for self-rule to implement a stalled peace deal brokered by Saudi Arabia, it announced early Wednesday, July 29, 2020 in a major step toward closing a dangerous rift between nominal allies in the chaotic proxy war. (AP Photo)

Yemen’s separatists to give up self-rule, push peace deal

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In this July 26, 2020 photo, a Saudi security officer motions to an ambulance at a checkpoint in the Mecca region ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage. The Islamic pilgrimage has been dramatically downsized this year with only a few thousand residents of Saudi Arabia permitted to take part due to concerns over the coronavirus. (Saudi Ministry of Media)

Pilgrims arrive in Mecca for downsized hajj amid pandemic

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2019, file photo, Saudi King Salman chairs the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia says that 84-year-old King Salman has undergone a successful surgery to remove his gallbladder. The state-run Saudi Press Agency reported Thursday, July 23, 2020, that the surgery took place, saying the king underwent the procedure at at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Saudi king, 84, undergoes surgery to remove gallbladder

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2019, file photo, Saudi King Salman chairs the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has been admitted to a hospital in the capital, Riyadh, for medical tests due to inflammation of the gallbladder, the kingdom’s Royal Court said Monday, July 20, 2020 in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman admitted to hospital for tests

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press