Saudi Arabia has admitted Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
Khashoggi - a Saudi writer, US resident, and Washington Post columnist - entered the building on October 2 to obtain documentation certifying he had divorced his ex-wife. He never came out.
After two weeks of repeated denials that it had anything to do with his disappearance, the kingdom admitted on Saturday the journalist died in a "fist-fight" inside the consulate.
Here are the latest developments:
Monday, October 22
Report: Saud al-Qahtani 'ran Khashoggi killing via Skype'
Reuters news agency has reported that Saud al-Qahtani, a former royal court media adviser and top aide for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, orchestrated Khashoggi's killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after being beamed into a room of the Saudi consulate via Skype.
Al-Qahtani was fired on Saturday during Riyadh's efforts to contain the fallout over Khashoggi's killing.
In its report, Reuters cited two unnamed Arab and Turkish intelligence sources. According to one of them, a high-ranking Arab source with access to intelligence and links to members of Saudi Arabia's royal court, Qahtani began to hurl insults at Khashoggi over the phone, Reuters reported.
Khashoggi answered Qahtani's insults with his own, the sources told Reuters. But he was no match for a 15-man hit team, which included top security and intelligence operatives, some with direct links to the royal court, Reuters said.
A Turkish intelligence source relayed that at one point Qahtani told his men to dispose of Khashoggi. "Bring me the head of the dog", the Turkish intelligence source told Reuters that Qahtani instructed.
It is not clear if Qahtani watched the entire proceedings, which the high-ranking Arab source described as a "bungled and botched operation".
The Arab source and the Turkish intelligence source told Reuters the audio of the Skype call is now in the possession of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who is refusing to release it to the United States.
Erdogan said on Sunday he would release information about the Turkish investigation on Tuesday.
Al-Qahtani's ties to the crown prince are widely known - he once said he would never do anything without the approval of his
"Do you think I make decisions without guidance? I am an employee and a faithful executor of the orders of my lord the king and my lord the faithful crown prince," Qahtani wrote on Twitter last summer.