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• Turkey
  Turkey Struggles to Halt Islamic State ‘Jihadist Highway’ – WSJ

  Turkey is struggling to close a "jihadist highway" that lets foreign militants slip across its border into Syria, amid pressure from Western governments and mounting security fears at home. Turkish forces have stepped up arrests, patrols and interrogations in recent months, but the rapid advance of Islamic State extremists in Iraq has made Ankara's initiative even more urgent, say Turkish officials, Western diplomats and residents.

  • Cicero - For Refugees in Turkey, A Tipping Point Looms
• NCB IPO
  Saudi Arabia’s Largest Bank Said to Plan IPO Next Quarter

  The IPO, which could raise about 16 billion riyals ($4.3 billion) according to Riyad Capital, would make it the world’s largest such sale this year, surpassing Japan Display Inc. (6740)’s $3.1 billion offering in March. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is expected to raise as much as $20 billion from its IPO later this month, a deal that has the potential to be the largest offering in U.S. history.

• Damascus
  Syrian forces escalate assault on rebel-held Damascus district

  Syrian forces carried out their fiercest assault on the rebel stronghold of Jobar in Damascus since the start of the three-year war, conducting at least 27 air strikes on Tuesday and killing a child, according to activists and rights groups. The government is trying to retake Jobar after the capture of several rebel-held areas around the center of the capital this summer, including the town of Mleiha just outside Damascus on August 14.

• Security
  Shots Fired at Saudi Pipeline Hint at Larger Concerns

  A small fire erupted on a gas pipeline in eastern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday after assailants shot at a security patrol, security and oil industry sources said, in an incident that may heighten concern about the vulnerability of Saudi energy infrastructure.

• Attack on Egypt security convoy kills 11 in Sinai: security sources

  An attack on a convoy killed 11 members of the Egyptian security forces in the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, security and medical sources said.

• Ebola
  Saudi suspends labour visas for nations worst-hit by Ebola

  Saudi Arabia has stopped granting visas to workers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the countries worst-hit by the deadly Ebola virus, the labour ministry announced Monday.

• Israel
  Israel police find body of missing U.S. student

  Israeli police said on Thursday they had found the body of a 23-year-old American student who went missing last week near a forest in Jerusalem and that they did not suspect a criminal motive.

  • NYT - Israeli App Tracking the Gaza Conflict has Followers Near and Far
• Hajj
  Saudi Arabia begins to receive pilgrims for this year’s Hajj

  The first batches of a total of 235,000 pilgrims from India and Bangladesh arrived on Wednesday in the Kingdom for this year’s. An Air India flight carrying 235 pilgrims from Kolkata arrived at Madinah’s Prince Muhammad International Airport at 12.00 p.m. while 419 Bangladesh pilgrims landed at the Hajj terminal of King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah.

  • The National - Woven with devotion: the sacred Islamic textiles of the Kaaba
  • Saudi Gazette - Elegant and Exquisite — Lebanese, Saudi, Emirati clock towers among the world’s 17 most beautiful
• Gaza
  After more than 2,100 deaths, the Gaza war ends where it began

  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel had dealt Hamas “the greatest blow since the organization’s founding.” But in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader there, praised the 1.8 million residents of Gaza as “the true heroes.” It was Haniyeh’s first public appearance since the war began seven weeks ago.

• Coffee
  Saudi Arabia biggest coffee consuming country in world | Economy | Saudi Gazette

  The study showed also that the consumption of coffee per capita amounts to 3 kg per year. According to the same statistics, Saudi people spend annually more than SR1 billion for the preparation of coffee and its components. The Kingdom imports on an annual basis more than 26,000 tons of cardamom, ginger and saffron with a total value exceeding SR4.5 billion, while the number of coffee shops in Saudi Arabia increases more than 10 percent per year

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