MUST-READS

• 'Tahjeer'
  Saudi Arabia records higher number of women forced to marry relatives

  Saudi Courts reported an increase in “tahjeer” cases where the male relative of a woman strikes an agreement with her guardian to marry her without consultation and she is then banned from marrying anyone else, Al-Hayat daily reported.

• Security
  Saudi Arabia Arrests 135 Terrorism Suspects in Nationwide Sweep

  Saudi Arabia arrested 135 terrorism suspects in nationwide raids as the world’s largest oil exporter pressed a crackdown on militants spurred by Islamic State’s advance across Syria and Iraq.

• Women in the Workforce
  Encouraging Saudis to let women work

  Claudia Goldin, a Harvard professor, is not just an expert on working women. As one of the nation’s most prominent economists, she also exemplifies the growing stature and independence of women in American society. So it was unusual to find Goldin covered in an abaya while meeting in Saudi Arabia not long ago with government officials in an opulent hotel that offered male-only seating areas and forbade women from using its spa.

• U.S.-Iraq
  US troops have immunity in Iraq

  Washington has an agreement with Baghdad on privileges and immunities for the growing number of troops based in Iraq who are helping in the fight against the Islamic State group, the new U.S. ambassador said Thursday. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Stuart Jones said Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has given assurances that U.S. troops will receive immunity from prosecution. Under Iraq's former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, that issue was a major sticking point, ultimately leading to the decision to withdraw all remaining U.S. troops in late 2011.

  • Reuters - Bombs in Shi'ite, Kurdish districts kill 35 in Iraq
  • Reuters - U.S. Learning to Live With Iran's Involvement in Iraq?
• Saudi Viewpoint
  Opinion: The seven top Saudi priorities – Education, Health, Housing, Women, Media, Infrastructure, Diversity

• Women in Saudi Arabia
  Video: Saudi Arabia is undergoing a “huge transformation”

  Dean Malak Talal Al-Nory told us her students have futures their mothers could only dream of. "It has been a huge change, huge transformation, in almost every way," she told Williams. "It has been a change in the mentality, in the acceptance of women in the workplace."

• Boston Bombing
  Glenn Beck must face Saudi’s lawsuit over Boston Marathon bombing

  The conservative commentator Glenn Beck failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a Saudi Arabian student who Beck repeatedly accused of involvement in and being the "money man" behind the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

• Pakistani Nukes
  ′Pakistan could have 200 nuclear weapons by 2020′

  In report released by the US-based Council on Foreign Relations titled Strategic Stability in the Second Nuclear Age, author Gregory D. Koblentz, an expert on arms control and non-proliferation, identifies South Asia as the region "most at risk of a breakdown in strategic stability due to an explosive mixture of unresolved territorial disputes, cross-border terrorism, and growing nuclear arsenals." In this context, Pakistan has the fastest-growing nuclear program in the world. And as Koblentz says in a DW interview, by 2020, the Islamic Republic could have a stockpile of fissile material that, if weaponized, could produce as many as two hundred nuclear devices, roughly equivalent to the size of the United Kingdom's nuclear arsenal.

• Football and Nitaqat
  Angry football clubs claim they cannot meet Saudization targets

  Football clubs in Kingdom are angry at the Ministry of Labor’s decision to list them under the Nitaqat program that aims to improve Saudization levels in the country, Al-Sharq reported. They said the decision has left them struggling to ensure they are employing enough nationals. Football clubs said the ruling should not apply to them because they are not part of the private sector Nitaqat is targeting.

• Cyber Attacks
  Report: Iran Hackers Infiltrated Airlines, Energy, Defense Firms

  An Iranian hacker group has breached airlines, energy companies, defense firms and even the US Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, according to the US cyber security firm Cylance. The firm says these attacks — dubbed Operation Cleaver — showcase a dangerous leap forward in Tehran’s cyber skills as it seeks to retaliate against Western cyber attacks on its nuclear program. The goal of these attacks was apparently infiltration and information gathering, with motives beyond intellectual property theft.

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