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  • Ministry of Defense
    Defense minister makes key appointment

    Defense Minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman has appointed Samir Al-Tabib, hitherto vice president of Saudi Aramco for engineering affairs, as director of the project management office for the ministry’s development.

  • Pakistani Taliban
    Taliban hit Shiite mosque in Pakistan, killing 19

    Militants stormed a Shiite mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 19 people in a wave of shooting and explosions before the siege ended, officials said. The attack in the city of Peshawar also wounded more than 40 people, according to Provincial Information Minister Mushtaq Ghani. There was intense shooting in the immediate aftermath of the explosion he said, but the violence was now over.

  • U.S.-Afghanistan
    As the U.S. mission winds down, Afghan insurgency grows more complex

    As the United States reshapes its military footprint in Afghanistan, the Taliban is transforming into a patchwork of forces with often conflicting ideals and motivations, looking less like the ultra-religious movement it started out as in the mid-1990s. The fragmentation may suggest the movement is weakening, but it is forcing Afghanistan’s government to confront an insurgency that is becoming increasingly diverse, scattered — and more lethal.

  • Syria
    In Syria, the Enemy of an Enemy Is Still an Enemy

    Joshua Landis, the director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, said that early hopes that the rise of the Islamic State could bring the moderate opposition together with regime elements have largely been dashed. That hope, he said, was “founded on the misconception built into all our peace-making efforts: That we can get an interim regime that is based on a political solution. It’s not going to happen. Assad has made it very clear he is perfectly happy to rule over a smaller part of Syria than to make any compromises. He has a system in place that works for him.”

  • Foreign Military Sales
    US firm wins $166m deal to revamp Saudi airbase

    US-based Gilbane Federal has announced that it has been awarded a $166 million design-build construction project at King Khalid Airbase for the Royal Saudi Air Force by the US Department of Defence.

  • Capital Markets
    Second-tier stocks boost Saudi, other markets narrowly mixed

    Second-tier stocks boosted Saudi Arabia's bourse on Thursday as oil prices rebounded from an overnight tumble, but other Gulf markets were narrowly mixed. Egypt's stock index fell but ended well off its lows.

  • Saudi Reserves
    Saudi Arabia budget insulated from effects of lower oil prices

    Saudi Arabia is the largest exporter of crude oil and other petroleum liquids in the world, and their oil exports accounted for 89% of the country's total revenue in 2014. The recent decline in global oil prices is decreasing the value of these exports, leading to a potential budget shortfall. In its 2015 budget, Saudi Arabia plans to spend about $230 billion but expects to take in $190.7 billion in revenue, resulting in an overall deficit of $38.6 billion. While the oil price assumption was not specified in Saudi Arabia's budget, the budget was crafted in December 2014, when crude oil prices were between $55 and $70 dollars per barrel.

  • Egypt and Aljazeera
    Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed freed

    Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed have left prison in Egypt following their release on bail. They spent more than a year behind bars. On Thursday a court ordered their release pending a retrial this month. They are accused of spreading false information and helping the banned Muslim Brotherhood.

  • Saudi-Lebanon
    Saudi/French arms shipment to Lebanon to arrive in April

    The Saudi grant, which was announced on Dec. 29, 2013, is now more than 400 days old, and the senior French official chose the only day regarded by both the Lebanese and the French as a joke to implement it.

  • Maaden
    Saudi builder Khodari wins $170m deal from Ma’aden unit

    Saudi Arabian builder Abdullah Abdul Mohsin Al-Khodari and Sons said on Thursday it had been awarded a $170 million contract from a unit of Saudi Arabian Mining Co (Ma'aden).