Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz names his second son Prince Khalid as defense minister
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz named his son and heir Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the kingdom’s prime minister and his second son Prince Khalid as defense minister, a royal decree said on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan and Investment Minister Khalid al-Falih remained unchanged, the decree showed. The 86-year-old king, the custodian of Islam’s holiest sites, became ruler in 2015 after spending more than 2-1/2 years as the crown prince. He has been hospitalized several times over the last two years.
His reforms, however, have come with a massive crackdown on dissent, with activists, royals, women rights’ activists and businessmen jailed.
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