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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.
Saudi economists have advised the government to peg the oil price between $45 and $50 while preparing the national budget for 2015.
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 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.
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.
An air strike hit the last functioning commercial airport in Libya's capital Tripoli for a second day running on Tuesday, residents said, as a power struggle in the oil-rich nation intensified. Three years after the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is being lacerated by rival factions, one of which has set up an alternative administration in Tripoli after seizing the city in fighting during the summer.
A German satellite which was put in orbit by a Russian rocket in 2008 has crashed in Saudi Arabia but there were no reports of any damage.
Oil prices are bottoming, and Saudi Arabia is unlikely to heed Iran's request for a cut in oil production when OPEC meets Thursday, analyst Stephen Schork told CNBC on Monday.
On Sunday, millions of Iranians -- perhaps even as much as one-quarter of the country's population -- will tune in to watch the soccer match between Persepolis and Esteghlal, the country's two biggest clubs. Both are based in Tehran, and the city's main Azadi Stadium will be packed to its 80,000 capacity, divided between the red of Persepolis and the blue of Esteghlal.
Four new terrorist training camps in Iraq and Syria, three of them operated by the Islamic State, have been identified by The Long War Journal. The identification of these camps, three in Syria and one in Iraq, brings the total number of jihadist-run camps identified in the two countries to 46.