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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

IAN TIMBERLAKE

A woman, wearing the chador, a head-to-toe garment, walks on a sidewalk in front of a mural showing the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and Basij paramilitary force, at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) street, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
January 8, 2023, 8:57 am
Iran sends conflicting messages, with clerics divided on protest response
Regime seen experimenting with seemingly contradictory repressive and conciliatory gestures as it struggles to formulate a clear policy
By IAN TIMBERLAKE
FILE -- US President Donald Trump looks at his phone during a roundtable with governors on the reopening of America's small businesses, in the State Dining Room of the White House, June 18, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
September 5, 2020, 11:46 am
With false, manipulated content, Trump team pushes social media limits
As election nears, the open use of digitally altered images by the US president and candidates has some in the tech world worried
By IAN TIMBERLAKE and Arthur Macmillan
US President Donald Trump speaks during the Arabic Islamic American Summit at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center in Riyadh on May 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)
June 6, 2017, 6:43 pm
Trump takes credit for Arab states’ move to isolate Qatar
US president says his Middle East visit ‘already paying off,’ with rulers heeding his call to adopt ‘hard line’ on terror funding
By IAN TIMBERLAKE and David Harding
A giant billboard bearing portraits of US President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's King Salman, is seen on a main road in Riyadh, on May 19, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / GIUSEPPE CACACE)
May 19, 2017, 7:30 pm
Saudi Arabia looks to assert regional role with Trump summit
Riyadh seeks to showcase its leadership of the Muslim world in the face of regional rival Iran
By IAN TIMBERLAKE
Ben Emmerson, Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), speaks during a press conference held in Riyadh on May 4, 2017, at the end of a visit to Saudi Arabia. (AFP PHOTO / FAYEZ NURELDINE)
May 4, 2017, 10:55 pm
UN expert seeks urgent review of Saudi terrorism law
Envoy says prosecution of journalists and human rights defenders unacceptable by international standards
By IAN TIMBERLAKE
A Saudi Arabian woman drives a car as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving, June 17, 2011 (AP Photo)
November 30, 2016, 9:13 pm
Let women behind the wheel, urges Saudi prince
In unusual stance, Alwaleed bin Talal says ban undermines individual rights and holds back economic growth
By IAN TIMBERLAKE
US Secretary of State John Kerry (C) is greeted upon his arrival at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, on August 24, 2016. AFP / STRINGER / Saudi Arabia
August 25, 2016, 5:45 pm
Kerry meets key Mideast allies before Syria parley with Lavrov
In Saudi Arabia, agenda includes push for Yemen peace, exploring ways to strengthen Libya government against IS
By IAN TIMBERLAKE
Saudi Emir of Medina Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz (2R) and security officers look at blood stains on the ground after a suicide attack near the security headquarters outside one of Islam's holiest sites, the Prophet's Mosque in Medina on July 4, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / STR)
July 6, 2016, 12:31 am
Muslim world condemns Saudi holy site bombing
Hezbollah and Taliban join others in denouncing suicide attack outside Medina shrine as Muslim holiday set to begin
By IAN TIMBERLAKE
A picture taken on October 17, 2015 shows smoke billowing as a Syrian opposition fighter fires a weapon in the Mount Azzan area, 24 kms from the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, during reported fighting against forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AFP PHOTO/THAER MOHAMMED)
February 6, 2016, 9:34 am
As Syria rebels face rout, allies Saudi and Turkey may send troops
Experts say ‘moderate’ opposition is in serious danger of losing ground if Aleppo region falls to regime forces
By IAN TIMBERLAKE
Illustrative: Saudi women visit the Saudi Travel and Tourism Investment Market fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 29, 2010. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
December 12, 2015, 8:00 am
Saudi women vote in their first ever election
Fewer than one in 10 voters are projected to be women, and few, if any, female candidates are expected to win in local races
By IAN TIMBERLAKE
Illustrative: Saudi Shiite worshipers are frisked by members of security as they make their way to a hussainiya, a Shiite hall used for commemorations, in the mainly Shiite coastal town of Qatif, on October 16, 2015. (AFP/Hussein Radwan)
October 17, 2015, 2:14 am
IS claims attack on Saudi Shiites that killed 5
Interior Ministry says gunman opened fire on gathering of Shiite minority in eastern city of Qatif, was shot dead by police
By IAN TIMBERLAKE
Saudi emergency teams gather inside the Grand Mosque of Saudi Arabia's holy Muslim city of Mecca after a construction crane crashed into it on September 11, 2015, killing dozens of people. (AFP PHOTO/STR)
September 15, 2015, 7:29 pm
Riyadh sanctions Binladin Group after Mecca crane collapse
Executives of firm owned by Osama bin Laden’s family barred from leaving country after over 100 killed at Islam’s holiest site
By IAN TIMBERLAKE
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, left, meets with Saudi King Salman at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah on July 22, 2015. (AFP/POOL/CAROLYN KASTER)
July 22, 2015, 3:14 pm
Saudis seek US stand against Iran ‘interference’
Defense chief Ashton Carter arrives in kingdom to continue regional tour aimed at reassuring allies over nuclear deal
By Laurent Barthelemy and IAN TIMBERLAKE
Illustrative: A woman is seen kneeling on the ground ahead of her execution in Saudi Arabi as a swordsman dressed in white stands above her, January 17, 2015. (Screen Capture: YouTube)
March 4, 2015, 3:01 pm
Saudi executions set ‘unprecedented’ pace
Rights group Amnesty International raises concern; kingdom justifies the deaths as deterrents
By IAN TIMBERLAKE
The body of Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz is carried during his funeral at Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Grand Mosque on January 23, 2015 in Riyadh (photo credit: AFP/STR)
January 25, 2015, 4:10 pm
Saudi capital goes quiet for day of mourning
World leaders flock to influential kingdom as new monarch Salman makes first moves
By IAN TIMBERLAKE
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