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Anti-ISIS CampaignU.S. identifies 1,200 potential fighters for Syria training
The United States has so far identified about 1,200 Syrian opposition fighters for potential participation in a U.S. military-led program to help train and equip them to battle the Islamic State, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
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AfghanistanCivilian Casualties in Afghanistan Topped 10,000 in 2014
More civilians died in Afghanistan in 2014 than in any year since the year the United Nations began keeping records in 2009, signaling a new level of violence and ground engagements between Taliban insurgents and the embattled Kabul-based government.
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LibyaLibya urges UN to lift arms embargo to tackle IS
Libya has asked the UN Security Council to lift an arms embargo so that it can deal with the Islamic State (IS) group and other militants.
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CounterterrorismObama: Terror, Not Islam, Is the Enemy
After months of delays and weeks of internal and external discord surrounding the White House’s Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, President Barack Obama finally got to tell officials from more than 60 countries that terrorism, not Islam, is the enemy.
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Anti-ISIS Strategies6 Key Takeaways on Confronting the Islamic State
The debate on how to confront the Islamic State is being distorted by a handful of analysts proposing extreme measures. Only a few analysts, many of them the same neoconservatives that encouraged the invasion of Iraq, have advocated the full entry of the United States into the Syrian civil war. These proposals have received outsized political attention and been amplified by powerful hawks in Congress, but they do not represent the collective wisdom of experts.
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Daesh MythsOpinion: Today’s Top 7 Myths about Daesh/ ISIL
There is a center of gravity to any religion such that observers can tell when something is deviant. Aum Shinrikyo isn’t your run of the mill Buddhism, though it probably is on the fringes of the Buddhist tradition (it released sarin gas in the Tokyo subway in 1995). Like Aum Shinrikyo, Daesh is a fringe cult. There is nothing in formal Islam that would authorize summarily executing 21 Christians.
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Saudi - RussiaTensions rise between Saudis, Russians
Finally — and most damaging at present — many in Moscow suspect that Saudi Arabia is deliberately depressing oil prices to damage Russia’s economy, either on its own or in collaboration with the United States. The Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, which some see as linked to Russia’s intelligence services, recently published a study making this case. A spokesman for state-owned oil company Rosneft likewise accused Saudi Arabia of “political manipulation” of the oil price. Patrushev has publicly attributed the collapse of the USSR to a similar plot.
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InsuranceSaudi Arabia: Insurance industry bounces back into the black
Saudi Arabia's 34 listed insurance companies have reported a total combined profit before zakat of SAR947.2 million (US$252.5 million) for 2014, compared to a loss before zakat of SAR1,198.9 million for the previous year.
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ISIS and IslamOpinion: What The Atlantic Gets Dangerously Wrong About ISIS And Islam
Wood’s article has encountered staunch criticism and derision from many Muslims and academics who study Islam. After the article was posted online, Islamic studies Facebook pages and listserves were reportedly awash with comments from intellectuals blasting the article as, among other things, “quite shocking.” The core issue, they say, is that Wood appears to have fallen prey to an inaccurate trope all too common in many Western circles: that ISIS is an inevitable product of Islam, mainly because the Qur’an and other Islamic texts contain passages that support its horrific acts.
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Global Oil MarketsThe oil price: The Saudi project, part two
In the long run, there are signs that a restructuring of the market is starting, which could eventually lead to high-cost producers going bust or marginal areas being abandoned. Large oil firms have announced cuts in capital spending of over 20% for this year. BP, for example, will spend $20 billion in capital projects in 2015, compared with $23 billion in 2014. New discoveries are down even more steeply. According to IHS, a research firm, new finds of oil and gas were the equivalent of 16 billion barrels last year, the lowest for 60 years.
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