MUST-READS

• US-Saudi
  Analysis: Saudi Arabia faces complex regional challenges

  Troubles abound for the Kingdom, but its strategic alliance with the US, however contradictory, has been affirmed by Islamic State's expansion, even as Saudi Arabia's regional rival Iran is seen by the US as equally indispensable.

• Oil and World Politics
  Friedman: A Pump War?

  Is it just my imagination or is there a global oil war underway pitting the United States and Saudi Arabia on one side against Russia and Iran on the other?

• Islamic State
  US Ramps Up Airstrikes on IS in Kobani

  U.S. warplanes have ramped up the number of airstrikes against ISIS fighters in the besieged city of Kobani, launching 21 airstrikes since Monday, officials said today.

• Iraq
  The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

  The Pentagon kept silent as munitions left over from Saddam Hussein’s war with Iran found new targets from 2004 to 2011: American and Iraqi troops.

• Society
  Saudi mulls hefty punishment for sexual harassment

  Arab News reports that Saudi Arabia is considering hefty fines and jail sentences of up to five years for sexual harassment. Proposals to tighten punishment for unwanted sexual advances follow a surge in the harassment of women at workplaces, streets and shopping malls.

• Economy
  Turkey lowers economic targets

  Efforts to rein in inflation have proven a huge disappointment. Accordingly, the year-end estimate was raised to 9.4% from the earlier 5.3% projection, a level Turkey could now hope to achieve only in 2016, if everything goes as planned.

• ISIS Foreign Fighters
  German, Saudi, and Turkish Islamic State fighters launch complex suicide attack

  The Islamic State has claimed a deadly, complex suicide attack in a town north of Baqubah in Iraq's Diyala province that killed at least 25 people. The suicide attack in Diyala took place today in the town of Qara Qubah, and targeted a government complex. Reuters reported that the attack was executed using three car bombs driven by suicide bombers, and 25 people, including civilians and troops, were killed and more than 60 were wounded.

  • BBC News - Police chief of Iraq's Anbar province killed by bomb
• Islam Debate
  Opinion: Let’s be honest, Islam has a problem right now

  I know the arguments against speaking of Islam as violent and reactionary. It has a following of 1.6 billion people. Places such as Indonesia and India have hundreds of millions of Muslims who don’t fit these caricatures. That’s why Maher and Harris are guilty of gross generalizations. But let’s be honest. Islam has a problem today. The places that have trouble accommodating themselves to the modern world are disproportionately Muslim.

• Global Trends
  Citi: Future Opportunities, Future Shocks

  "Twenty years ago, there were fewer than 3 million people with Internet access; now there are nearly 2.5 billion. Mice can grow human ears. Robots make cars. Guns can be manufactured with a 3-D printer," Citi's Andrew Pitt writes.

• E-Commerce
  Why should you venture into e-commerce in the Arab region? [Infographic]

  In an attempt to get more entrepreneurs enthused about starting online businesses, and helping them see why the Middle East is a good space for e-commerce, the Saudi based payment gateway, Paytabs, published last week an infographic listing the three top reasons for supprting their argument.  "Our aim is to inform people about the ecommerce market in the Middle East, as it is the fastest growing in the world," says Umair Maqsood, strategic Marketing Associate at Paytabs. "We want people to do business online and get a chunk of the $15 billion."

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