US is said to have boosted pressure on Saudi Arabia over Qatar and Yemen
The US is raising pressure on Saudi Arabia to wind down its political and economic isolation of Qatar, according to three people familiar with the effort. President Donald Trump has said little about Saudi Arabia’s role in the killing of Khashoggi, a U.S. resident and insider-turned-critic of the kingdom, since being briefed last week by CIA Director Gina Haspel. But the administration wants to see Saudi Arabia resolve the Qatar crisis and take similar steps toward its widely criticized war in Yemen, according to one US official who, like the other people cited in this story, asked not to be identified. Asked Monday what action the U.S. has taken almost four weeks after Khashoggi’s disappearance, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that “the administration is considering what action we’ll take moving forward” after Haspel gathered more intelligence and briefed the president.
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