Saudi royal calls for UN resolution to pull militias from Syria


  • World
  • Saturday, 25 Jan 2014

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - A senior member of the Saudi royal family attacked the United States on Friday over its policy on Syria, and called for a U.N. resolution to pull "Iraqi and Lebanese Shi'ite militia" out of the Middle Eastern country.

Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former intelligence chief and an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama's administration since it started secret nuclear talks with Iran, said the world was disappointed with the "sense of no direction" in U.S. foreign policy.

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