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  • Al-Ahsa Attack
    Opinion: The Crime that Changed the Face of Saudi Arabia

    Last week, the winds of change blew with a vengeance in Saudi Arabia, when armed terrorists opened fire on visitors to a Shi’ite Husseiniyah (meeting house) in the Al-Ahsa province, killing eight people, among them three children. True, this is not the first time Saudi Arabia has witnessed a crime of this nature, where innocent civilians and children have lost their lives. In fact, it has seen even worse. But it is the first time such terrorist acts have played on the country’s dissonant sectarian chord in such an ugly and dangerous way, in an attempt to fan the flames of sedition and strife between its people. It is also the first time Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, and its entire Council of Religious Scholars, have come out in defense of Saudi Shi’ites in this way, and they were joined by all groups in society—unequivocally and without pretense.

  • Al-Ahsa
    Saudi authorities arrest 33 suspects over terror attack

    Security forces have arrested 33 Saudi terror suspects related to the terrorist operation in Al-Ahsa governorate in which five people were killed and nine others were injured, security spokesman of the Ministry of Interior Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki said.

  • Nuclear
    KSA sets up nuclear regulatory authority

    The nuclear safety authority of Finland (STUK) is working in close coordination with King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KACARE), Riyadh in designing and executing a program to establish a nuclear regulatory authority for the Kingdom.

  • Film
    Cinema green-lighted

    The green light has been given for establishing cinema houses in Saudi Arabia, following the reported agreement of four government entities.

  • U.S. Military Spending
    Obama Said to Seek $3.2 Billion to Fight Islamic State

    President Barack Obama will ask Congress this week to approve $3.2 billion in added Pentagon and intelligence spending to continue fighting Islamic State and possibly to retrain Iraq’s military forces, according to U.S. officials. The amendment to the pending $58.6 billion war operations budget for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 will include funds to replace munitions used in operations against Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria, according to the one of the officials. It also may provide at least $500 million to train and equip Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting the Sunni militants, although another official said a final decision hasn’t been reached on that issue. The officials asked not to be identified before the request is made.

  • Chemical Weapons in Iraq
    More Than 600 Reported Chemical Exposure in Iraq, Pentagon Acknowledges

    More than 600 American service members since 2003 have reported to military medical staff members that they believe they were exposed to chemical warfare agents in Iraq, but the Pentagon failed to recognize the scope of the reported cases or offer adequate tracking and treatment to those who may have been injured, defense officials say.

  • Libya
    Libya faces chaos as top court rejects elected assembly

    Libya's Supreme Court declared the internationally recognized parliament on Thursday as unconstitutional, in a ruling likely to fuel further chaos in the north African oil producing nation.

  • Iran Hostage Crisis
    Thirty-Five Years After Hostage Crisis, Tehran Faces Another Choice Between Revolution and Realpolitik

    Iran's annual commemoration of the Embassy seizure offers some insight into state of the current debate between these alternatives. Officially, the event is still celebrated as a national holiday — a epic victory over the oppressor, a powerful strike against America’s nefarious influence over Iran — accompanied by the requisite burning of the American flag and chants of ‘marg bar amrika’ or 'death to America.' Unofficially, many Iranians — including a number of those who were involved in the Embassy takeover — take a decidedly different view, one that is informed by the memory of all that followed in the wake of the initial euphoria.

  • Saudi Population
    Population control steps: No consensus in Shoura

    Shoura Council members were divided on the issue of birth control on Tuesday during a vote on a draft law on population development issued by the Ministry of Economy and Planning. The council’s committee on economic affairs and energy had called for the deletion of the phrase “reduce the total fertility rate by encouraging spacing between deliveries,” and replacing the term “reproductive health” with “mother and child” throughout the document. The council voted on the recommendations by the committee, with 58 members in favor of the amendments and 64 in opposition.

  • Israel-Palestine
    Jerusalem car attack injures 14, driver shot dead

    A vehicle hit several Israeli settlers near occupied East Jerusalem Wednesday, Israeli media said, a day after a Palestinian was run over by an Israeli settler in the West Bank. According to Israel’s Haaretz the man driving the vehicle was shot and killed. The incident comes two weeks after Palestinian Abdul-Rahman Shaludi rammed his car into Israeli settlers, injuring six and killing one. Shaludi was also shot dead. Meanwhile, an Israeli settler driving through the occupied West Bank city of Beit Jala hit a Palestinian with his car on Tuesday, witnesses told Ma'an.