Members press Obama to raise human rights in Saudi Arabia - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Julian Pecquet

Julian Pecquet

Mar 25, 2014

U.S. President Barack Obama wipes his eye after the closing session of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague March 25, 2014. World leaders called on Tuesday for countries to minimise their stocks of highly enriched nuclear fuel to help prevent al Qaeda-style militants from obtaining atomic bombs, at the end of a two-day summit overshadowed by the crisis in Ukraine. REUTERS/Frank Augstein/Pool (NETHERLANDS - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3IJ79 — US President Barack Obama wipes his eye after the closing session of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, March 25, 2014. Obama is on a weeklong trip to the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Saudi Arabia. — REUTERS/Frank Augstein

U.S. President Barack Obama (front L) is escorted from Marine One to Air Force One as he departs Saudi Arabia to return to Washington March 29, 2014. Obama sought to reassure Saudi King Abdullah on Friday that he would support moderate Syrian rebels and reject a bad nuclear deal with Iran, during a visit designed to allay the kingdom's concerns that its decades-old U.S. alliance had frayed. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (SAUDI ARABIA - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3J2GL

Lobbying 2014: Saudis Count on US Network to Get Obama on War Footing

Julian Pecquet

U.S. Representative Jim Moran (D-VA) talks to a television reporter during interviews in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 15, 2014. Moran, a 12-term Virginia liberal, became on Wednesday the third member of his party this week to announce he will not seek re-election in November. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX17FDA

Will campaign against Islamic State unleash wave of repression?

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Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) (R) is trailed by reporters outside of a closed-door Senate Armed Services Committee briefing on the Bergdahl prisoner swap at the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 10, 2014. The White House has been trying to appease angry lawmakers since U.S. President Barack Obama announced on May 31 that U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl had been exchanged for the five inmates from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY

Week Ahead: Congress debates return to Iraq

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Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk (3rd R) poses for pictures at a meeting with members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including chairman Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) (2nd R) and ranking member Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) (4th L) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington March 12, 2014. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3GUH1

Congress to focus on Ukraine, Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia

Julian Pecquet