US implicates Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman in journalist’s killing

Jamal Khashoggi. Picture: Johnny Green/PA

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince is likely to have approved an operation to kill or capture a US-based journalist inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to a newly-declassified intelligence report.

The release could escalate pressure on the Biden administration to hold the kingdom accountable for a murder that drew bipartisan and international outrage.