Khalid bin Salman Al Saud
Khalid bin Salman Al Saud | |||||
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خالد بن سلمان آل سعود | |||||
Prince Khalid in 2025 | |||||
| Minister of Defense | |||||
| Assumed office 27 September 2022 | |||||
| Monarch | Salman | ||||
| Prime Minister | Mohammed bin Salman | ||||
| Preceded by | Mohammed bin Salman | ||||
| Deputy Minister of Defense | |||||
| In office 23 February 2019 – 27 September 2022 | |||||
| Monarch | Salman | ||||
| Minister | Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud | ||||
| Preceded by | Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud | ||||
| Succeeded by | Abdulaziz bin Mohammed bin Ayyaf Al Muqrin | ||||
| Saudi Ambassador to the United States | |||||
| In office 23 April 2017 – 23 February 2019 | |||||
| Monarch | Salman | ||||
| Preceded by | Abdullah bin Faisal Al Saud | ||||
| Succeeded by | Reema bint Bandar Al Saud | ||||
| Personal details | |||||
| Born | 1988 (age 36–37) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | ||||
| Spouse | Noura bint Mohammed bin Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | ||||
| Children | Prince Abdulaziz | ||||
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| Parent(s) | King Salman bin Abdulaziz Fahda bint Falah Al Hithlain | ||||
| Relatives | Mohammed bin Salman (brother) | ||||
| Alma mater | King Faisal Air Academy | ||||
| Military service | |||||
| Branch/service | Royal Saudi Air Force | ||||
| Years of service | until 2016 | ||||
| Unit | No. 92 Squadron RSAF | ||||
| Battles/wars | War against the Islamic State Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen | ||||
Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud (Arabic: خالد بن سلمان آل سعود Khālid bin Salmān Āl Suʿūd; born 1988) is a Saudi Arabian diplomat and politician who serves as the Saudi Arabian Minister of Defense. He was appointed Defense Minister on 27 September 2022. He is a grandson of the founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz, the tenth child and ninth son of King Salman, and a younger brother of Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman.
According to a leaked CIA assessment, Prince Khalid was involved in the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, instructing Khashoggi to go to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where Khashoggi was subsequently strangled and dismembered.