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  • Iran Negotiations
    Iranian nuclear negotiators face further criticism

    Parliament's hard-liners appear to have an excuse now to sabotage the talks, which have so far resulted in an unprecedented interim agreement reached in November 2013 but extending the final deadline twice — in July and in November 2014 — in an effort to hammer out a permanent deal, which could limit Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.

  • Anti-Daesh Campaign
    Blunt Parliamentary Report Sharpens Debate on Defeating Daish 

    But the report observes a significant gap between rhetoric and reality - what it calls 'doing so little' through a modest British contribution of weapons, advisers and only 6% of airstrikes in Iraq. It roasts senior British military chiefs for their inability or unwillingness to clearly articulate the UK's objectives or plans in Iraq, while leaving strategic thinking to America.

  • Israeli Politics
    Israel recalls diplomats for alleged anti-Netanyahu tweets

    The grumbling of these diplomats reflects a wider exasperation with Netanyahu, who critics say is polarizing opinion on Israel and endangering its long-standing bipartisan support in the United States. The planned speech to Congress has infuriated the White House, which deems it a breach of protocol.

  • Guantanamo
    What Would it Actually Take to Close Guantanamo?

    Realistically, if Guantanamo is to be closed before the President leaves office, Congress has to lift the restriction on moving detainees to the United States this year. That’s going to be a hard legislative sell. And it means that the winnowing of the population will have to take place over the next few months. If the Guantanamo population is still above 100 in June or July, forget it; there simply won’t be time for the President to make a serious case to Congress that it should let him move the remaining detainees to facilities in the United States. If, on the other hand, the current momentum continues, and five or six months from now, we have between 80 and 100 detainees left at the facility, then the picture looks different.  The President would then need to spend the remainder of the year convincing Congress—probably in this year’s NDAA—to relax the restrictions on bringing detainees to the United States, and if he succeeded in doing so, he would then have his remaining year in office actually to effectuate that judgment.

  • Social Psychology
    Opinion: Using Social Psychology to Counter Terrorism

    To counter this lightning-fast expansion, Pope Gregory declared a Crusade against Muslim “heresy” in 996. For the next 300 years, the two civilizations fought against each other in a broad front extending from Spain in the west to Syria in the east. The fatal blow against the Muslim expansion came from an unexpected quarter: The Mongol invasion of the 13th century. The Mongols were so ferocious that they broke through the Islamic narrative of invincibility and forced Muslims to ask themselves: “What went wrong?” The 13th century cleric Ibn-e-Tamiyya provided the narrative that became dominant. Allah had taken victory away from Muslims, he said, because they had stopped following Islam faithfully enough. The only way to restore the glory of the golden era of Islam was to go back to faithfully following Islamic tenets – Jihad in particular.

  • Gas Shortae
    Saudi’s GASCO Says To Solve Gas Shortage Soon

    The shortage of gas cylinders, used for cooking, in Jeddah and nearby cities has pushed up prices to SAR100 in the black market from SAR15, the standard price of the cooking gas in the kindgom, according to local Saudi newspapers.

  • US-Saudi
    New Saudi king muscles up to help USA

    All these moves suggest the Saudis have shifted gears and are moving ever closer to a United States that, in the wake of the rise of the terrorist organization Islamic State, has a whole new perspective on the central importance of Saudi Arabia and its rulers.

  • Oil
    Saudi Arabia Deepens Asia Oil Discount to Record Low

    Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude exporter, cut pricing for March oil sales to Asia, a sign that the desert kingdom is continuing to fight for market share.

  • U.S. Exports to the Arab World up slightly over past year

    U.S. exports to the MENA region showed mixed results, with the two largest destinations for U.S. goods – the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – down ten percent and one percent, respectively. Conversely, among some other major economies in the region, sales were up sharply, led by Algeria (up 43 percent), Kuwait (up 41 percent), Oman (up 28 percent), Lebanon (up 25 percent), and Egypt (up 25 percent). The biggest percentage increase in the region took place in Somalia, where U.S. exports jumped 121 percent, from $16 million in 2013 to $35 million in 2014.

  • Arab Spring
    Opinion: Of conspiracy theories

    But the rulers of the Gulf countries are more legitimate than the leaders of the so-called Arab republics. The rulers of the Gulf states ruled the land for many hundreds of years, while the Arab republics’ leaders came to the top following military coups. The Arab republics wasted the resources of their countries while the rulers of the Gulf countries quietly built their countries and remained closer to their people.