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• Food and Beverage
  Saudi’s Almarai says gets $67 mln compensation for bakery fire

  Saudi Arabia's Almarai, the Gulf's largest dairy company, received 250 million riyals ($66.7 million) from an insurer in compensation for a fire at one of its bakeries, it said on Thursday.

• Saudi - Yemen: Air Strikes
  Saudi Arabia leads air strikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels

  Warplanes from Saudi Arabia and Arab allies struck Shi'ite Muslim rebels fighting to oust Yemen's president on Thursday, a gamble by the world's top oil exporter to check Iranian influence in its backyard without direct military backing from Washington.

  • Washington Post - Saudi Arabia targets strategic areas around Yemen in heavy bombardment
  • Reuters - Instant View: Saudi Arabia coalition air strikes in Yemen risks wider conflict
  • The Guardian - Saudi Arabia launches Yemen air strikes as alliance builds against Houthi rebels
  • Reuters - Pakistan says considering Saudi request for troops for Yemen
  • CNN - Saudi-led coalition strikes rebels in Yemen, inflaming tensions in region
  • NPR - U.S. Confirms It Is Supporting Saudi Military Operations In Yemen
• AQ vs. ISIS
  AQ vs. IS and the battle for the soul of jihad

  Which do you think is more likely to attract the attention of an 18-year-old boy dreaming of adventure and glory: a badass video with CGI flames and explosions, or a two-hour lecture on the Qur’an from a grey-haired old man?

• U.S. - Israel
  Spy story reveals U.S.-Israel tensions over Iran

  "What's new is what's political," Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East peace negotiator for Democratic and Republican administrations, said Tuesday. "This is an effort to show Congress, particularly the Democrats, that (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu has done wrong."

• Iran Negotiations
  France tells U.N. ‘insufficient’ progress in Iran nuclear talks

  “Iran must now make difficult choices if it truly wishes to regain the trust of the international community,” French U.N. Ambassador Francois Delattre told a United Nations Security Council meeting on U.N. sanctions on Iran. Iran, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China are to resume negotiations in Switzerland this week, aiming for a political framework deal by the end of March and a full nuclear pact by June 30.

  • Lobelog - Resolving the Remaining Issues in Iran Talks
  • Politico - Bob Corker may move on Iran nuclear bill next week
• U.S. - Afghanistan
  White House To Delay Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan

  The Obama administration changed course on its Afghanistan withdrawal plan on Tuesday, saying that it would keep the 9,800 U.S. troops—half of which it planned to remove in coming months—stationed there through 2015.

  • Defense One - Stop Putting Afghanistan on a Deadline
  • AP - Afghan president expected to get warm welcome from Congress
• Insurance
  Discovering Business | Insurance Market Opportunities

  I think the growth will come from the dynamic demographics of Saudi Arabia. The population is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 2.1% between 2011 and 2015, which is almost twice the global average of 1.2%. Once they enter the labour market, this young population will significantly increase the demand for insurance, and when they start to have families they will also start to think more on how they protect their wealth and educate their children etc.

• Anti-ISIS Campaign: Tikrit
  Official: US-led aircraft flying over IS-held Tikrit

  The U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State group has begun surveillance flights over the northern Iraqi town of Tikrit, a senior coalition official said Tuesday, marking the first time the alliance has taken part in a major offensive there that is being spearheaded by Iranian-backed Shiite militias.

  • Aljazeera - Opinion: Tikrit is the battleground for Iraq's past and future
• ISIS and Social Media
  The powerful propaganda being spread online by women in the Islamic State

  The logic of promoting this side to life under the Islamic State is clear: The group aspires to establish a state. To do so, it needs women and children as well as men. Plus, reporting from The Post's Liz Sly and others has shown that these aspirations do not appear to be materializing. Images of women enjoying a normal life under the Islamic State may be an attempt to undercut that perception.

  • Daily Beast - 'ISIS Hackers' Googled Their Hit List; Troops' Names Were Already on Public Websites
  • Small Wars Journal - ISIS For The Common Man
• Saudi Aramco: China
  Saudi Aramco wants to boost supply to China

  “We see our energy supply potentially doubling at one point of time as China’s energy demand grows,” he said. The firm supplied about 13% of China’s crude-oil demand last year, according to government data.

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