on there is already agreement [between Saudi and Iran]," said Jamal Khashoggi, veteran Saudi journalist and former advisor to then- ambassador Prince Turki al-Faisal. "The agreement in Lebanon is to contain the situation." In neighboring Syria, however, where Iranian-backed regime forces continue to suppress a Sau
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cher, then, the supposed policy shift could be dismissed as Bandar rantings. But Prince Bandar was not the only Saudi Prince who is ranting. Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former Saudi Intelligence Chief and former Ambassador to the U.S., added his complaints on Tuesday. He said, "the current charade of internati
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t summer to cancel a potential military strike in Syria, cutting a deal with Russia to get the Syrians to give up their chemical weapons. As Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former Saudi intelligence chief, complained this past December, when American red lines become "pinkish" and "eventually end up completely whi
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ctorate (GID), the Saudi CIA, is badly in need of a shakeup. Its recent record is, to say the least, mixed: Shortly before the 9/11 attacks, Prince Turki al-Faisal, the kingdom's chief interlocutor with the then Taliban regime in Afghanistan, "was relieved of the post at his (own) request." In Ghost Wars, his P

Riyadh
LocationCapital and largest city of Saudi Arabia

Beirut
LocationCapital and largest city of Lebanon

Barack Obama
PersonPresident of the United States from 2009 to 2017

East Asia
LocationEastern region of Asia

Middle East
LocationGeopolitical region encompassing Egypt and most of Western Asia, including Iran

John Kerry
PersonAmerican politician and diplomat (born 1943)

Tehran
LocationCapital city of Iran

United States
LocationCountry located primarily in North America

Lebanon
LocationCountry in West Asia

Jerusalem
LocationCity in the Middle East, holy to the three Abrahamic religions

Cairo
LocationCapital city of Egypt

North Korea
LocationSovereign state in East Asia

Bashar al-Assad
PersonPresident of Syria from 2000 to 2024

Bahrain
LocationCountry in the Persian Gulf

Saudi Arabia
LocationCountry in West Asia

Jeddah
LocationCity in Saudi Arabia

Muammar Gaddafi
PersonLeader of Libya from 1969 to 2011

Kosovo
LocationCountry in southeastern Europe

Hassan Rouhani
PersonPresident of Iran from 2013 to 2021

Osama bin Laden
PersonSaudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)