MUST-READS

• Automotive
  Abandoned cars clog Jeddah parking spaces

  Jeddah reportedly has the highest number of abandoned cars in the country. Some locals blame the authorities for failing to deal with the problem, but a spokesman for the local government tells Arab News that car owners don't report discarded vehicles.

• Desert Crater
  Video: Giant crater in Saudi desert

  Sand collapsed in a remote area in Saudi Arabia’s massive desert, creating a giant crater that puzzled those who found it.

• Egypt and Extremism
  After joining IS, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis expands in Egypt

  The war has become more complicated in the Sinai Peninsula in the past few weeks after the Islamic State (IS), namely Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis in Sinai, began using traps and remote bombing in its confrontation with the Egyptian army. This has multiplied the difficulties facing the Egyptian army in fighting the terrorists who have mastered the art of hiding in the region’s arid environment.

• Gas Prices
  Highest and Cheapest Gasoline Prices by Country: Pain at the Pump

  The Saudis sit atop two enormously valuable bodies of liquid: oil and water. Both are being pumped to the surface at unsustainable rates.

• Women Driving
  Loujain Hathloul ‘arrested by police’ after spending 24 hours at Saudi Arabia border demanding that she be allowed to drive across

  The French literature graduate started her journey from the United Arab Emirates, where she holds a driving licence and where it is legal for women to drive, and tried to cross its border into Saudi Arabia yesterday.

  • VICE News - Saudi Women Continue Their Fight for the Right to Drive
• U.S. Military in Iraq
  U.S. seeks to build lean Iraqi force to fight the Islamic State

  After learning hard lessons rebuilding foreign militaries over the past dozen years, the U.S. military is shifting its strategy against the Islamic State, choosing to train a smaller number of Iraqi soldiers rather than trying to stand up an entire army anew.

  • Washington Post - Investigation finds 50,000 'ghost' soldiers in Iraqi army, prime minister says
  • USA Today - U.S. advisers stay out of harm's way in Iraq
• Oil Slump
  Saudi Economists Advise Government to Base Budget on $45 Oil Price

  Saudi economists have advised the government to peg the oil price between $45 and $50 while preparing the national budget for 2015.

• Saudi Expatriates
  Saudi Arabia to issue 5-year residency permits for expats

  Foreigner workers in Saudi Arabia are likely to have the validity of their residency permits extended to five years. Currently, the permits are valid for one year and must be renewed, for a fee, annually. Saudi media reported that the Directorate General of Passports is working on the final touches on the plan to introduce the five-year validity.

• Egypt - Gaza
  Egypt opens Rafah crossing to stranded Palestinians bound for Gaza

  Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing on Wednesday to allow thousands of stranded Palestinians to return to Gaza but the frontier will remain closed to traffic going the other way, Palestinian and Egyptian border officials said. One of Gaza's vital gateways to the outside world, the Rafah crossing was shut on Oct. 25 after Islamist militants in Egypt's adjacent Sinai region killed 33 members of the security forces in some of the worst anti-state violence since Islamist president Mohamed Mursi was toppled in July 2013.

• Refining Capacity
  New delays said to hit Saudi Aramco’s Jizan refinery

  The refinery, valued at $6 billion to $7 billion, is the centrepiece of a wider plan to revive the economy in one ofSaudi Arabia's poorest regions by developing an industrial city that produces and uses oil products for manufacturing. The complex had been scheduled to be completed in late 2016, but industry sources in the kingdom said last year that it faced delays of six to 12 months because work on associated infrastructure was behind schedule.

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