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• MH17
  U.S. discloses intelligence on downing of Malaysian jet

  Senior U.S. intelligence officials cited sensors that traced the path of the missile, shrapnel markings on the downed aircraft, voiceprint analysis of separatists claiming credit for the strike, and a flood of photos and other data from social-media sites.

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• Afghanistan
  As US draws curtain on combat role, resilient Taliban plans patient comeback

  Surrounded by scaffolding, a blue-domed mosque is nearing completion on a site where a cinema once stood.

• GAZA
  Hamas, Israel signal unwillingness to compromise

  The Islamist militant organization Hamas said Monday that it would not agree to a cease-fire with Israel until its demands were met, as Israel warned that its incursion into the Gaza Strip could continue for days or even weeks.

• Takaful
  Value of Saudi Arabia’s Islamic banking assets reaches $285bn

  The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry based on a recent study by Ernst and Young stated that global Islamic banking assets have registered cumulative annual growth rate of about 16 percent during 2008-2012, reflecting the radical shift from conventional financial system in favour of Islamic finance.

• Putin
  The Malaysia Airlines crash is the end of Russia’s fairy tale

  Before there is any further discussion of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, it’s important that one point be made absolutely clear: This plane crash is a result of the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine, an operation deliberately designed to create legal, political and military chaos. Without this chaos, a surface-to-air missile would not have been fired at a passenger plane.

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  • BBC - Gaza crisis: Shejaiya assault defines grimmest day
• ISIL
  A Rogue State Along Two Rivers

  The militant group called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria seemed to surprise many American and Iraqi officials with the recent gains it made in its violent campaign to create a new religious state. But the victories achieved in the past few weeks were built on months of maneuvering along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, which define a region known as the cradle of civilization.

  • Washington Post - In Iraq, airstrikes slam into Mosul, city held by al-Qaeda-inspired militants
  • Economist - The War For Iraq: Every Sort of Battle
• ISIL
  Saudis Alert to Enemies on Both Sides of Iraq Schism

  Saudi Arabia is a target for both sides in Iraq’s deepening conflict, one reason it has ramped up security levels to confront a threat that’s more immediate than the Arab Spring revolts three years ago.

  • Washington Post - Five myths about the Islamic State
  • McClatchy - As Shiite militias return to the fight, Iraqi politicians worry about sectarian war
  • Washington Post - In Iraq, airstrikes slam into Mosul, city held by al-Qaeda-inspired militants
  • DefenseOne - ‘You Have to Kill Them’ Says Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
• The Syrian War Comes Home to Europe

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• soudi Arabia
  All about the unwanted, rewrapped gift | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Whenever, I read in the classifieds column of someone wanting to hock an unwanted gift I think of the poor sod who gave it. There he is wrapping it up in colored paper and sticking a card to it with best wishes and all that and what does the recipient do, he puts an ad in the papers looking for buyers. Here is an unwanted gift, any bids please. Imagine the giver picking up the paper with the coffee in the morning and yawning back to bed. He scans the columns and his eye alights upon this legend: For quick sale, an ormolu clock with filigree work and silver etchings, unwanted gift, good as new. So, he shakes awake his wife. Look at this, he says, there is an ad for a clock just like the one we gave the Shankars, what a coincidence, maybe we could alert them and then they can have a pair of ormolus.

• Health Ministry needs overhaul | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Health Ministry needs overhaul

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