Jamal Khashoggi

1 week ago - Khashoggi's Turkish ancestors made the Hajj from Kayseri to Mecca some four centuries earlier and decided to stay. Their family surname means "spoon maker" (kaşıkçı) in Turkish. Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi was born in Medina on 13 October 1958. His grandfather was Muhammad Khashoggi.

July 20, 2022 - Donald Trump has said that the US has little obligation to investigate and punish the perpetrators behind the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi because it took place in Turkey, and he is not an “American citizen.“

November 25, 2025 - In 2016 Saudi Arabia banned Jamal Khashoggi, a longtime editor, journalist and royal adviser from writing. His crime? He published an op-ed warning about the rise of Trump in 2016. He remained silent for a year, until Prince Mohammed unleashed a crackdown on businessmen, writers, and mild critics – imprisoning many of them.

February 26, 2021 - A U.S. intelligence report that was unlawfully suppressed by the Trump administration but released Friday afternoon concludes that Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman likely ordered the capture or killing of Washington Post columnist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi.

2 weeks ago - Nick Paton Walsh, a senior ... October 2018, Salah Khashoggi, who holds dual Saudi-US citizenship, and his family left Saudi Arabia for the US....

February 24, 2021 - Ms Callamard said both the investigations into Khashoggi's death by Saudi Arabia and Turkey "failed to meet international standards". Jamal Khashoggi's fiancée: "We didn't say any goodbyes"

March 31, 2019 - The deadly assault on Khashoggi — a legal resident of the United States, with children who are U.S. citizens — was also a brazen and an egregious assault against American values and against the First Amendment rights he exercised in this country. Federal prosecutors thus have an obligation ...

Speaking to reporters outside the White House a short time later, Trump again emphasized Khashoggi’s status as a Saudi citizen.

Khashoggi was a legal permanent resident, not a citizen (his children are citizens), but the detail does not alter the point that he was an American and his country and his President owed him better than this.

Answer (1 of 7): He was a Saudi. I don’t mean to come off as callous; what happened to Mr. Khashoggi was yet another atrocity I expect from Saudi Arabia and from the middle east. But …

October 12, 2018 - "We are concerned about our citizen Jamal," he said. "There is an ongoing investigation and it would be premature for me to comment until we see the final results of the investigation." Asked when he would have an answer, the envoy replied: "Hopefully soon." Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor who has been critical of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's policies, has not been seen since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Public Prosecutor stated the following: preliminary investigations carried out by the Public Prosecution Office into the disappearance of citizen Jamal Khashoggi revealed that the discussions that took place between him and the persons with whom he met him during his visit to the Kingdom's Consulate in Istanbul led quarrels and an altercation, which tragically resulted in his death.

November 20, 2025 - Jamal Khashoggi was a prominent Saudi Arabia journalist who wrote for American publications like the Washington Post, but he was not an official US citizen.

November 18, 2025 - He explained that he could easily obtain Turkish citizenship if he purchased property there, and in light of his expiring Saudi passport, this would provide him the needed travel documents, personal security and health insurance he so desperately ...

November 19, 2025 - During a press availability with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Bruce asked a direct and necessary question about the 2018 murder of Washington Post Columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Bruce asked, “Your Royal Highness, the U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder ...

November 19, 2025 - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the murder of U.S. resident and Saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi.

October 23, 2018 - Since moving to the US, Khashoggi has been a US ‘resident’ as he is employed and lives in the country. However, he is not a citizen, but he was allegedly in the process of applying for citizenship before he was killed.

November 19, 2025 - Was journalist Jamal Khashoggi a U.S. citizen? 'The Washington Post' journalist was brutally murdered in Istanbul in October 2018.

Practically, that would have depended on the response of the American administration, and frankly, I doubt it would have been any different. Trump was quite clear: Saudi Arabia spends a lot of money buying US aircraft and therefore we’ll ...

The widow of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is calling for the release of the transcript of a 2019 phone call President Donald Trump had with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.