MUST-READS

• Anti-ISIS Campaign
  U.S. fears Iran military influence growing in Iraq

  The United States conducts airstrikes daily in Iraq and Syria and has provided Iraq's military with ammunition and weapons to fight the Islamic State. Iraq did not ask for U.S. airstrikes to support the Tikrit operation, said Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.

  • Washington Post - Iraqi forces launch offensive to take strategic city from Islamic State
  • Washington Post - These Americans return to Iraq as Christian warriors against Islamic State
  • AP - Fierce Clashes Outside Iraq's Tikrit After New Offensive
  • Defense One - John Allen: ISIS Losing, But Iraq Still Isn’t Ready To Win
• Iran Negotiations
  Kerry begins new nuclear talks with Iran FM

  By the shores of Lake Geneva in the town of Montreux, US Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif as they try to pin down a political framework for a deal to rein in Tehran's nuclear programme by a March 31 deadline.

  • National Journal - Susan Rice on Iran Nuclear Negotiations: 'A Bad Deal Is Worse Than No Deal'
• Dr. Zakir Naik
  Saudi Award Goes to Muslim Televangelist Who Harshly Criticizes U.S.

  He has publicly declared that “the Jews” control America, that apostates can be killed, that the United States is the world’s “biggest terrorist” and that the Sept. 11 attacks were an “inside job” by President George W. Bush.

• U.S. - Israel
  In much-anticipated speech, Netanyahu to address Congress Tuesday

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address Congress Tuesday morning, a speech that has frayed relations between the United States and Israel and laid bare fissures between leading Jewish American groups and Jewish Democrats -- long before it has even been delivered.

  • Foreign Policy - The Bibi Bump Backfires
  • Stratfor - Netanyahu, Obama and the Geopolitics of Speeches
  • Quartz - Iran’s biggest threat to the world isn’t the one Netanyahu will describe today
  • Reuters - Kerry questions Netanyahu's judgment as U.S.-Israel row deepens
• Saudis and ISIS
  Terrorists only use Saudis as cannon fodder

  Al-Manie made these comments while participating in a talk show on Saudi Channel One. “Killing has become a kind of disease among the IS militants. They consider their opponents infidels and apostates who deserve capital punishment. Some of them have even killed their own colleagues,” he said. Saudi bloggers have urged authorities not to show any leniency toward Al-Manie, adding that it would encourage other Saudis to join the group. Al-Manie had rejected his allegiance to the Saudi leadership and pledged allegiance to the IS leadership.

• Saudi Birth Rate
  Five reasons cited for growing infertility among Saudi women

  “The fertility rate of Saudi women declined from 2.9 children in 2013 to 2.8 children in 2014,” said one expert. The Kingdom maintained its second position in the Gulf, after Oman (2.9 children), in fertility rate. However, Saudi Arabia registered considerable fall in fertility rate during the past 10 years as it declined from 3.6 children in 2004 to 2.8 children in 2014.

• MERS
  Saudi MERS deaths reach 400 as cases surge

  Saudi Arabia's surge of MERS-CoV cases and deaths continues into March, with 15 more cases reported over the past 3 days, as well as 6 additional deaths, pushing the country's fatality count to 400, according to statements from the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH).

• Saudi - Turkey
  Kingdom, Turkey enter ‘a new era of cooperation’

  The visit “will open a new era of relations between the Kingdom and Turkey,” said Mirdad. The gathering marks a thaw in diplomatic ties between the two countries, several Saudi and Turkish officials said, but did not divulge more details.

• Islam and Extremism
  An Anti-ISIS Summit in Mecca

  The conference’s organizers cast their mission as developing a coordinated campaign to promote a moderate, peaceful vision of Islam that disavows the violence and apostasy that ISIS thrives on. The program, above all, emphasized that this is a specifically Muslim issue, and placed the onus on the Muslim community to craft a narrative that overpowers the Islamic State’s.

• Saudi Contemporary Art
  Saudi Arabia showcases contemporary art

  Saudi Arabia's Art Council has created an exhibition, Fast Forward, to explore the history of the country's contemporary art since 1960. The Gulf country has the region's largest number of active contemporary artists and the longest history of sending its artists overseas to study.

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