MUST-READS

• Libya
  Libya’s Legitimacy Crisis

  While much of the world’s attention has been fixated on the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), Libya has been tearing itself asunder. Its airports lie in smoking ruins, foreign diplomats have fled, and its once outspoken civil society has been cowed through a spate of assassinations.

• Haj Rituals
  Fat sheep, fat price for Saudi Eid festivities

  "There are fewer sheep than last year," says Asef Nemah, a vendor who just arrived at the Yasamin Eid market with a truckload of the Naimy breed from about 70 kilometres outside the capital. The smiling Nemah, with hands on his hips and a red-check shemagh wrapped around his head, says sheep are not coming this year from war-torn Syria, which traditionally had been a key supplier.

• UK and Aghanistan
  Britain’s Cameron on Surprise Visit to Afghanistan

  Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday pledged support for Afghanistan's newly sworn-in president and the country's new unity government, saying during a surprise visit to Kabul that Britain is committed to helping Afghans build a more secure and prosperous future.

  • Commentary - Will Afghanistan Turn the Tables on Pakistan?
• ISIS and Human Rights
  Islamic State committing ‘staggering’ crimes in Iraq: U.N. report

  Islamic State insurgents in Iraq have carried out mass executions, abducted women and girls as sex slaves, and used child soldiers in what may amount to systematic war crimes that demand prosecution, the United Nations said on Thursday. In a report based on 500 interviews with witnesses, also said Iraqi government air strikes on the Sunni Muslim militants had caused "significant civilian deaths" by hitting villages, a school and hospitals in violation of international law.

• Egyptian Economy
  Egyptians’ Views on Life, Economy Starting to Rebound

  After a tumultuous year of political turmoil, violence, and at times international isolation, Egyptians seem to be turning a corner. The percentage of Egyptians who rate their lives poorly enough to be considered "suffering" has been cut in half, dropping to 16% this June, one year after hitting a record high of 34%. At the same time, the percentage who rate their lives highly enough to be considered "thriving" has nearly doubled over the same time period, rising from 9% to 17%.

• Health
  Saudi MERS patient assumed infectious on Doha-Vienna flight

  A Saudi woman suffering from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is assumed to have been infectious when she flew from Doha to Vienna on Sept. 22, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday.

• Abdullatif Alkadi
  FBI Joins Hunt For Missing CSUN Student From Saudi Arabia

  The LAPD says the FBI is assisting in the investigation of a California State University, Northridge, student from Saudi Arabia who went missing two weeks ago.

• U.S. Counter-Terrorism Policy
  Is Vice’s Documentary on ISIS Illegal?

  That decision means, for example, that Jimmy Carter and his Carter Center could be in violation of federal law for giving peacemaking advice to groups on the State Department’s FTO list. Any private individual who coordinates with a group on that list, or a group that the individual ought to know engages in terrorism, with the purposes of providing it advice or assistance—even on how to pursue an end to its campaign of violence—is guilty of a crime by the logic of the Roberts Court. In the justices’ judgment, the government’s interest in delegitimizing and weakening any such group easily outweighs constitutional rights to speech and association.

• U.S.-Afghanistan
  New Afghan Government Signs BSA and SOFA

  The crucial Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) and Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) have been signed by newly inducted National Security Advisor Hanif Atmar, U.S. Ambassador James B. Cunningham and NATO Ambassador to Afghanistan Maurits R. Jochems in Kabul at the Presidential Palace on Tuesday.

  • Foreign Policy - Opinion: America's Longest War Could Get Even Longer
• Egypt
  Egypt court jails 68 pro-Morsi protesters

  An Egyptian court has sentenced 68 people to up to 15 years in prison over protest clashes, in the latest mass sentencing of Muslim Brotherhood supporters.

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