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  • Yemen
    Yemen’s Houthis advancing close to Saudi border

    Houthi forces are advancing in Yemen’s western Al-Hudaydah province, seeking to take control of a number of strategic areas including the port of Midi, close to the Yemeni–Saudi border, local sources told Asharq Al-Awsat.

  • US-Syria
    U.S. lawmakers move toward arming Syrian rebels, with conditions

    The U.S. House of Representatives will begin debating legislation on Tuesday to give President Barack Obama approval for arming and training rebels who oppose both Islamic State militants and Syria's government. Republican lawmakers unveiled a measure, written with input from the White House, that would quickly provide the authority - but not the funding - that Obama wants to equip and train the moderate Syrian rebels.

  • ISIS and Twitter
    The Islamic State Is Losing the Twitter War

    Without Twitter, the Islamic State might not have been able to grow to 10,000 fighters last spring (the size of IS is currently estimated at 30,000) but the phenomenon was self-perpetuating. Many of the jihadists who became part of the Islamic State through Twitter went right back to work tweeting on behalf of IS upon their acceptance. Former Taliban recruiter and Canadian intelligence operative Mubin Shaikh recently revealed to the International Business Times that media warrior was one of the three jobs offered to fresh IS fighters.

  • Office Space
    Soft opening scheduled for King Abdullah Financial District

    The article said: “A big problem is its size. The Saudi economy may be doing well on the back of high oil prices but not so well that its businesses could easily digest all the extra property.” It added that the new “financial district has thrice as many high-end office spaces as the rest of Riyadh. In other words, even if every company in the city’s plusher offices moved to the new district it would still be two-thirds empty.”

  • Afghanistan
    Final stage of leaving an Army base in Afghanistan

    Forward Operating Base Lightning is in its final days. The small base near the city of Gardez in Paktia province, Afghanistan, is down to its final stages as an operational hub for U.S. troops, set to end combat operations in December. Lightning itself is attached to the considerably larger FOB Thunder, home to around 4,000 Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel. How does a FOB wither? It starts with the luxuries.

  • Saudi-Iraq
    Saudi Arabia to reopen embassy in Iraq

    Saudi Foreign Ministry spokesman Osama Nugali said on Saturday that the decision was made following a meeting between Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal and his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari in the Saudi Red Sea port of Jeddah earlier this year, English-language newspaper Arab News reported.

  • Muslim Brotherhood
    Qatar expels leading Muslim Brotherhood figures: sources

    A number of high-profile Muslim Brotherhood members currently residing in Qatar are set to leave the small Gulf state, a development that may herald a breakthrough in attempts to heal the rift between Doha and its neighbors. However, some aspects of this development remain murky, with different sources offering conflicting accounts of the reasons behind the Brotherhood members’ departure. While some informed sources said that Qatar had asked the men to leave, a Qatari diplomatic source told Asharq Al-Awsat they had opted to leave of their own free will.

  • Power
    Saudi-Egypt electricity grid project to soon be finalized

    The Saudi-Egyptian Electricity Grid project is close to being finalized, Governor of Saudi Arabia’s Electricity and Co-Generation Regulatory Authority (ECRA) Dr. Abdullah Al-Shehri said.

  • Labor
    Shoura suggests SR2,000 ($533) minimum Saudi wage

    “The proposal aims to raise their pay and address bogus salary and headcount figures,” he said.

  • Haia
    Defining the role of Haia is a must

    The concept of a team of volunteers (Hesbah) is as old as the religion of Islam. Those volunteers used to roam streets and were responsible for preventing people from committing any crime. They used to frequent marketplaces to ensure smooth functioning of the market and check any wrongdoing on the part of shoppers and the shopkeepers. It was their responsibility to protect the rights of consumers by ensuring the scales the traders used were not tampered with and nobody was adding water to milk etc.