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• Saudi Aramco
  Saudi Aramco Plans To Invest $40B A Year For The Next Decade

  Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, plans to invest $40 billion a year over the next decade to keep oil production capacity steady and double gas production, Chief Executive Khalid Al-Falih said. "Although our investments will span the value chain, the bulk will be in upstream, and increasingly from offshore, with the aim of maintaining our maximum sustained oil production capacity at twelve million barrels per day, while also doubling our gas production."

• Afghanistan
  Review of Afghanistan’s presidential runoff vote nearing end

  Afghan officials began the final stage of a drawn-out review of the presidential runoff vote on Monday as pressure mounted for a resolution to a dispute that threatens the country’s stability and the future presence of U.S. forces.

  • Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - Pentagon Plans For Quick Afghan Exit If Election Dispute Continues
• Iraq
  Insurgency Deepens Iraqi Ethnic, Sectarian Divides

  The offensive by the Sunni militants is threatening to reshape the demographics of once-mixed communities by dividing territory along ethnic and religious lines, Iraqi and Kurdish officials say.

  Kurds, Christians and other minorities were driven from their homes by the insurgents' rapid advance. But even after Kurdish forces, aided by U.S. airstrikes, wrested back control of some of the towns, many are refusing to move back if their Sunni Arab neighbors are also allowed to return.

  • Vice News - Iran Was First to Supply Iraq's Kurds With Weapons to Battle the Islamic State
  • Stratfor - Iraq and Syria Follow Lebanon's Precedent
• Nitaqat
  Employees with Yellow Employers are in Danger

  This week, Saudi authorities have made some changes in the Nitaqat Rules.  In fact the changes have been made especially for the “Yellow Category Employers”.

• Saudi-Iran
  Iran deputy foreign minister to visit Saudi Arabia

  Iran's deputy foreign minister will visit Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for the first bilateral talks between the Middle East's most intractable Muslim rivals since Iran's political landscape shifted in 2013, media in both countries reported.

• Israeli Drone
  A downed Israeli drone could advance Iran’s own drone program

  State media reports out of Tehran on Sunday said that the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard had shot down an Israeli drone near the Natanz uranium enrichment site, home to Iran’s nuclear program. The downed aircraft was reportedly a stealth long-range surveillance drone designed to avoid radar detection.

• KACST
  3,500 patents approved by KACST since 1982

  The King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) announced that since the inception of the patent office in 1982, it has approved 3,500 patents since the inception of the patent office in 1982.

• Extremism
  Saudi jails 17 for up to 33 years for terrorism offenses

  A Saudi special court sentenced 17 people to between nine and 33 years in jail for joining a "terrorist cell" in the kingdom and fighting abroad, state news agency SPA reported Monday.

• Libya
  Egypt, UAE carried out Tripoli air strikes

  Egypt and the United Arab Emirates were responsible for carrying out two series of air strikes in the past week on armed Islamist factions in Tripoli, Libya, US officials said on Monday.

  • New York Times - Arab Nations Strike in Libya, Surprising U.S.
  • The Economist- Is Civil War Likely in Libya?
• Oil
  Saudi Aramco Chief Executive Warns on Oil Supply

  The chief executive officer of Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, said Monday that worries such as rising oil-sector costs and global turmoil could lead to a lack of oil supplies down the line, if oil companies fail to make sufficient investments.

  • Arab News - Oil industry ‘needs timely investments’
  • The National - Saudi Aramco’s CEO trumpets investment plans for oil and gas amid falling prices
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