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  • Arms Deal for Lebanon
    Saudi Arabia asks for clarification on weapons deal for Army

    The trilateral deal, Lebranchu said, requires “finer print.” Certain “political elements” of the deal were not appropriately clear for all the parties involved, she said, without offering further details. “We need to clear up any ambiguities.”

  • U.S. - Yemen
    US orders evacuation of embassy staff in Yemen citing security concerns

    The US State Department on Thursday ordered some of its diplomats and other government workers at the US embassy in Yemen to leave the country because of deteriorating security amid unrest and sectarian clashes that have left Shia rebels in control of the capital.

  • Journalist Deaths
    Militant in Syria beheading videos identified: FBI

    A masked Islamic State militant seen wielding a knife in videos at the beheading of two Americans has been identified, FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday, but he declined to give the person's name or nationality. The videos released in August and September of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff showed a masked Islamic State militant brandishing a knife and speaking English with a British accent.

  • Sectarianism
    The limits of the ‘sectarian’ framing in Yemen

    It was 2005 when my Yemeni friends first started talking seriously about their fears that the Houthis would march on the capital of Sanaa. The Houthis were never closer than the nearby province of Amran back then. There was a media blackout, and most of our information came from journalist friends who were in and around the city of Saada, then the center of the conflict, distributing news via SMS.

  • Agriculture
    Saudi’s Alamoudi plans $500m Ethiopia investment

    Horizon Plantations Ethiopia will train workers, improve roads and replace washing units at the Limmu and Bebeka coffee plantations, Bloomberg reported, quoting general operations director Kemal Mohammed.

  • Extremism
    Saudi court sentences 3 to death on terror charges

    Riyadh’s specialized terrorism court sentenced three Saudis to death on Monday, and handed down prison terms to 20 more on charges related to terrorism, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

  • Syrian Rebel Training
    Opinion: Training the Syrian Opposition: So, What’s The Plan?

    Indeed, Syrian rebels are likely more motivated to fight Assad than to counter ISIL. Such an approach would require rehabilitating the Geneva process for a Syrian political transition and synchronizing the pace of opposition military gains with political negotiations. The Syrian opposition army would need more robust capabilities, deeper capacity, sustainment plans, and new doctrine to fight on multiple fronts and ensure that its successes endure — all of which necessitate a greater coalition commitment of trainers, advisors, funding, and equipment, not to mention political will.

  • U.S.-Saudi and ISIS
    Deal With Saudis Paved Way for Syrian Airstrikes

    Wary of a repeat of Mr. Obama's earlier reversal, the Saudis and United Arab Emirates decided on a strategy aimed at making it harder for Mr. Obama to change course. "Whatever they ask for, you say 'yes,'" an adviser to the Gulf bloc said of its strategy. "The goal was not to give them any reason to slow down or back out."

  • Counter Insurgency
    Opinion: Is COIN No Longer Relevant?

    The movement away from COIN doctrine is also a reflection of the now-popular sentiment that it didn’t work in the post-9/11 period any better than it did during the Vietnam War, the same conflict from which so many complained we didn’t retain hard-learned lessons in COIN.

  • North Africa
    Egypt’s border with Libya, Sudan ripe for Islamic State expansion

    Egypt may be interested in fighting its own battles, or at least not opening up new international fronts that would stretch its armed forces when it needs them here, but the reality is that the frontline against IS is everywhere.