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  • Riyadh Metro
    Saudi capital’s $22.5 billion metro a ‘race against time’

    Abdullah Allohaidan told AFP in an interview that the rail and bus development - whose construction is changing the face of Riyadh - is the largest such project under way in the Middle East "and I think in the whole world." Construction began a year ago but has accelerated in the last few weeks, with road closures, digging equipment and hard-hatted workers taking over the city's business core, to the frustration of drivers facing detours and lane-closures. "I think the biggest challenge we are facing is the duration of the project," said Allohaidan, assistant to the metro director. Plans call for construction to be completed by the end of 2018.

  • U.S.-Turkey Relations
    For Turkey and U.S., at odds over Syria, a 60-year alliance shows signs of crumbling

    The increasingly hostile divergence of views between Turkey and the United States over Syria is testing the durability of their 60-year alliance, to the point where some are starting to question whether the two countries still can be considered allies at all. Turkey’s refusal to allow the United States to use its bases to launch attacks against the Islamic State, quarrels over how to manage the battle raging in the Syrian border town of Kobane and the harsh tone of the anti-American rhetoric used by top Turkish officials to denounce U.S. policy have served to illuminate the vast gulf that divides the two nations as they scramble to address the menace posed by the extremists.

  • Breast Cancer
    Continuing the Conversation About Breast Cancer Within Saudi Arabia

    As we look to the future, we are establishing 2015 as a watershed year in our efforts to raise awareness of breast cancer within Saudi Arabia. The cornerstone will be 10KSA, our campaign to raise domestic awareness and international support for our breast cancer efforts. 10KSA stands for 10,000 in Saudi Arabia and will have two main components.

  • Tunisian Jihadis
    Tunisia, after igniting Arab Spring, sends the most fighters to Islamic State in Syria

    Tunisia, a small North African country of 11 million people, has become the largest source of foreign fighters joining the Islamic State and other extremist groups in Syria and Iraq, according to estimates by the Tunisian government and private analysts.

  • Bahrain
    Bahrain court bans opposition group for three months

    A court in Bahrain has suspended leading Shia opposition group al-Wefaq a month before parliamentary elections are due, their defence lawyer says. Abdullah al-Shamlawi told the Associated Press al-Wefaq's activities will be frozen for three months. The group had planned to boycott the elections, claiming the government did not try to reconcile with them following their anti-monarchy protests.

  • Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel Knighthood
    Queen Elizabeth knights ALJ chief

    Saudi businessman Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel has been awarded an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth for his philanthropic activities and developing arts and culture in the United Kingdom, the British Embassy in Riyadh announced Monday.

  • Sports
    Saudi Arabia approves 17 new sports clubs

    The 17 new clubs bring the total number in the country to 170.

  • Turkey
    Opinion: Turkey: No Longer a “Rock Star” on Arab Street

    Erdogan's Turkey is no longer an attraction for the Muslim Street. Instead, it is, overtly or covertly, on hostile terms with Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Iran -- all at the same time. Ironically, after the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident, in which a Turkish flotilla tried to break an Israeli naval blockade aimed at preventing weapons from reaching the Gaza Strip, Erdogan and his then Foreign Minister (now Prime Minister), Ahmet Davutoglu, vowed to "isolate Israel." Instead, it is Turkey that has been badly isolated, with the help of its one-time Arab brothers who had rushed to one city square after another, waving Turkish flags, to attend Erdogan's public rallies in Arab capitals.

  • Afghan Interpreters
    Why Is a Comedian the Only One Talking About the Plight of Afghan Interpreters?

    If you tuned in for last Sunday’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, you also watched some of the most thorough reporting to date regarding efforts to secure Special Immigration Visas (SIVs) for Afghan and Iraqi  translators who have served for years alongside U.S. military personnel. When American servicemen rotate away, these translators remain—often becoming top-priority targets for reprisal attacks. Unfortunately, the State Department program intended to get Afghan translators and their families to safety has long been stuck in a bureaucratic swamp, stranding more than 6,000 Afghans across various stages of the process. With the visa program slated to end on December 31, many of these Afghans are now in very real danger of being abandoned. This raises two difficult questions: first, why has this been allowed to happen? And second, what now—at this late stage—can still be done to save them?

  • Iran Negotiations
    Opinion: This is the roadmap for closing a nuclear deal with Iran

    In recent days, Khamenei has suggested that the economy is starting to worry him. The reason is the loss of another 25% of government income, entirely due to the plunge in oil prices. On Oct. 22, he lashed out at his country’s overwhelming economic reliance on oil, saying that until Iran finds other means of supporting itself, it will be “at the mercy of major policymakers in the world.” He said that the country instead had to “rely on the talent and potential of its youth.”