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  • Iran Negotiations
    P5+1 Nuclear Talks with Iran Down to the Wire

    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters this week that a deal between Iran and the P5+1 is “95 percent complete.” At the same time, he acknowledged that the final five percent yet to be agreed covers some of the most difficult issues on the table. In bilateral talks between the US and Iran, the Obama Administration has made significant new concessions that approach Washington’s own “red line.” The US is prepared to allow Iran to maintain as many as 4,500 centrifuges, while limiting the size of Iran’s stockpile of five percent enriched uranium. Washington has even conceded that the quantity of uranium reserves can be increased at any future time that Iran can demonstrate a genuine need. Right now, Iran has a contract with Russia to receive all of the necessary fuel rods for the Bushehr reactor through 2019. And although there are agreements in principle between Moscow and Tehran to build at least one new reactor, no final deal has been yet signed.

  • Libya
    Libya’s Legitimacy Crisis

    While much of the world’s attention has been fixated on the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), Libya has been tearing itself asunder. Its airports lie in smoking ruins, foreign diplomats have fled, and its once outspoken civil society has been cowed through a spate of assassinations.

  • Haj Rituals
    Fat sheep, fat price for Saudi Eid festivities

    "There are fewer sheep than last year," says Asef Nemah, a vendor who just arrived at the Yasamin Eid market with a truckload of the Naimy breed from about 70 kilometres outside the capital. The smiling Nemah, with hands on his hips and a red-check shemagh wrapped around his head, says sheep are not coming this year from war-torn Syria, which traditionally had been a key supplier.

  • UK and Aghanistan
    Britain’s Cameron on Surprise Visit to Afghanistan

    Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday pledged support for Afghanistan's newly sworn-in president and the country's new unity government, saying during a surprise visit to Kabul that Britain is committed to helping Afghans build a more secure and prosperous future.

  • ISIS and Human Rights
    Islamic State committing ‘staggering’ crimes in Iraq: U.N. report

    Islamic State insurgents in Iraq have carried out mass executions, abducted women and girls as sex slaves, and used child soldiers in what may amount to systematic war crimes that demand prosecution, the United Nations said on Thursday. In a report based on 500 interviews with witnesses, also said Iraqi government air strikes on the Sunni Muslim militants had caused "significant civilian deaths" by hitting villages, a school and hospitals in violation of international law.

  • Egyptian Economy
    Egyptians’ Views on Life, Economy Starting to Rebound

    After a tumultuous year of political turmoil, violence, and at times international isolation, Egyptians seem to be turning a corner. The percentage of Egyptians who rate their lives poorly enough to be considered "suffering" has been cut in half, dropping to 16% this June, one year after hitting a record high of 34%. At the same time, the percentage who rate their lives highly enough to be considered "thriving" has nearly doubled over the same time period, rising from 9% to 17%.

  • Health
    Saudi MERS patient assumed infectious on Doha-Vienna flight

    A Saudi woman suffering from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is assumed to have been infectious when she flew from Doha to Vienna on Sept. 22, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday.

  • Abdullatif Alkadi
    FBI Joins Hunt For Missing CSUN Student From Saudi Arabia

    The LAPD says the FBI is assisting in the investigation of a California State University, Northridge, student from Saudi Arabia who went missing two weeks ago.

  • U.S. Counter-Terrorism Policy
    Is Vice’s Documentary on ISIS Illegal?

    That decision means, for example, that Jimmy Carter and his Carter Center could be in violation of federal law for giving peacemaking advice to groups on the State Department’s FTO list. Any private individual who coordinates with a group on that list, or a group that the individual ought to know engages in terrorism, with the purposes of providing it advice or assistance—even on how to pursue an end to its campaign of violence—is guilty of a crime by the logic of the Roberts Court. In the justices’ judgment, the government’s interest in delegitimizing and weakening any such group easily outweighs constitutional rights to speech and association.

  • U.S.-Afghanistan
    New Afghan Government Signs BSA and SOFA

    The crucial Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) and Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) have been signed by newly inducted National Security Advisor Hanif Atmar, U.S. Ambassador James B. Cunningham and NATO Ambassador to Afghanistan Maurits R. Jochems in Kabul at the Presidential Palace on Tuesday.