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  • US believes Iran has transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia, AP sources say

    The United States has informed allies that it believes Iran has transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the matter. They did not offer any details about how many weapons have been delivered or when the transfers may have occurred, but they confirmed the U.S. intelligence finding. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a matter that has not been publicly disclosed.

  • Dutch high-tech consultancy TMC launches in Saudi Arabia

    Netherlands headquartered high-tech consultancy TMC has launched a new office in Saudi Arabia, its second in the GCC region. Headquartered in the city of Eindhoven, TMC is an engineering and technology consulting company dedicated to the high-tech segment. The firm’s 2,700 staff worldwide (mainly in Europe) serve diverse industries such as technology, semiconductors, IT services, energy and renewables, and life sciences. After entering the Middle East last year through an office in Dubai, TMC has now expanded into Saudi Arabia too with a similar ambition – becoming the country’s go-to consultant for high-tech work.

  • Iraq’s new family law amendment could potentially legalize child marriage—and fracture the country

    The impact of child marriage is catastrophic, and it has been a major concern in Iraq over the past twenty years, exacerbated by the shortcomings of existing laws, under which girls and boys can marry at as young as fifteen years old with parental consent. Alarmingly, the Iraqi parliament recently proposed an amendment to its Personal Status Law (PSL) that could potentially legalize child marriage for girls as young as nine, thereby further restricting women’s rights.

  • Will Jordan’s new electoral law bring real change?

    But this time around, to strengthen the country’s political parties and engage voters more effectively, the government has reserved forty-one out of the 138 seats for candidates running on party lists. Yet, the resulting changes are likely only cosmetic since Jordanian parties are not winning voters’ confidence for various reasons, including on the pivotal issue of unemployment.

  • GCC Ministers Meet in Saudi Arabia, Hold Talks With Russia, BRICS Nations

    Foreign ministers from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states met in Saudi Arabia on Monday for the council’s 161st ministerial summit and held separate talks with their counterparts from BRICS nations Russia, Brazil, and India. Based in Riyadh, the GCC is a regional political and economic union made up of Gulf monarchies, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attended the summit for the seventh GCC-Russia Joint Ministerial Meeting of Strategic Dialogue.

  • Lower Oil Prices Challenge Saudi Fiscal Policy

    Oil prices have slumped in recent weeks. Brent fell from close to $88 per barrel in early July to $71/bbl in early September. Growing worries about the impact of slower economic growth in China and the United States on the demand for oil have offset the production outage in Libya and periodic concerns about potential supply disruptions from a broadening conflict in the Middle East.

  • Saudi Arabia’s PIF to boost annual spending to $70 billion by 2025

    In its latest report on Saudi Arabia, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) highlighted that the PIF’s investments are set to reach $70 billion by 2025, according to Amin Mati, the IMF’s Mission Chief for Saudi Arabia.

  • Dozens killed, wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza tent camp

    Israeli strikes tore a huge crater, set tents ablaze and buried Palestinian families alive under sand in a supposedly safe zone of southern Gaza before dawn on Tuesday, killing or wounding scores of people, according to Palestinian officials.  Israel said it had struck a command centre for Hamas fighters whom it said had infiltrated the designated "humanitarian" area in al-Mawasi, a vast camp on sandy soil where the military has told hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to shelter since ordering them out of their homes.

  • Dubai singles splurge on premium dating apps but starve for real romance

    Dubai singles are more willing to pay premium prices for dating app subscriptions than ever before in the hopes of boosting their prospects of finding meaningful relationships, residents told Arabian Business. However, this financial investment comes with a paradox. Despite their willingness to pay for premium dating app subscriptions, these same singles have overwhelmingly expressed a preference for meeting potential partners organically in person to build more authentic connectio

  • Time to retire ‘Arab-Israeli conflict’?

    The experience of the past 11 months has led many experts on the region like myself to reassess that term. Is “Arab-Israeli conflict” an accurate reflection, given that the active participants are no longer just Arabs and Israelis? Should we retire that term for good now that the conflict has widened, drawing in the United States and Iran–and potentially Turkey and others in the coming years?