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An exhaustive five-year Senate investigation of the CIA’s secret interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak verdict on a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, describing levels of brutality, dishonesty and seemingly arbitrary violence that at times brought even agency employees to moments of anguish.
In a major Cabinet reshuffle, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on Monday replaced six ministers and appointed eight new ministers. Dr. Muhammad Al-Hiazaa is the new minister of health while Abdulaziz Al-Khudairi is new minister of culture and information, the Saudi Press Agency reported. According to the royal decrees, six ministers have been relieved from their duties upon their request. They are Sheikh Saleh Al-Asheikh, minister of Islamic affairs, endowments, call and guidance; Khaled Al-Anqari, minister of higher education; Muhammad Mulla, minister of communications and information technology; Yusuf Al-Othaimeen, minister of social affairs; Fahd Balghunaim, minister of agriculture; and Jubarah Al-Suraisri, minister of transport. They were replaced by Suleiman Aba Al-Khail (Islamic affairs), Khaled Al-Sabti (higher education), Fahaad Al-Hamad (communications and information technology), Suleiman Al-Homayyed (social affairs), Waleed Al-Khuraiji (agriculture), and Abdullah Al-Moqbil (transport).
The 10th annual Manama Dialogue, hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, brings together representatives from states in the Gulf region and outside powers to exchange views on the defense and security challenges facing the Gulf. The 2014 Manama Dialogue is being held 5th-7th December.
Taxi cabs will stop roaming around on the streets of Saudi cities as they will be restricted to on-call service under a new law to be enforced in the Gulf Kingdom within 45 days, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
An afternoon spent along a particularly violent stretch of the route — the Kabul-Jalalabad Road — helps illustrate the challenges in securing this capital city, as most U.S. and international forces prepare to withdraw by the end of this month. Here, it’s difficult to distinguish the enemy from local residents, and the targeting of foreigners is fueled by perceptions they are engaged in nefarious activities.
The military has provided few details about the new task force, but said in a news release Friday that it will replace U.S. Central Command as the organization releasing information about the mission.
Standard and Poor's has lowered the outlook for the world's top oil exporter Saudi Arabia to stable from positive and its Gulf partner Oman to negative on sliding oil prices.
He founded Souq.com in 2006 and settled in Dubai, the financial capital of the United Arab Emirates. Now he's the CEO of what's considered the most successful e-commerce site in the region. He recently raised $150 million in capital to expand. The 44-year-old entrepreneur says commerce is part of his DNA.
With the decision last week to extend the Iran nuclear deal talks for another seven months, some key members of the US negotiating team, including the State Department’s deputy sanctions chief Richard Nephew, are moving on.
A statement posted on the Abu Dhabi Interior Ministry's website said the victim was stabbed Monday with a butcher's knife that was found by police. The statement said the American woman was a 37-year-old kindergarten teacher. Her name has not been made public.
