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  • U.S. and ISIS
    Sources: Obama seeks new Syria strategy

    President Barack Obama has asked his national security team for another review of the U.S. policy toward Syria after realizing that ISIS may not be defeated without a political transition in Syria and the removal of President Bashar al-Assad, senior U.S. officials and diplomats tell CNN. The review is a tacit admission that the initial strategy of trying to confront ISIS first in Iraq and then take the group's fighters on in Syria, without also focusing on the removal of al-Assad, was a miscalculation.

  • Iran's Mosques
    Incredible pics capture symmetry of Iran’s mosques

    It's a side of Iran the rest of the world doesn't normally get to see -- the kaleidoscopically brilliant interiors of the country's intricately designed mosques. With beautiful mosaics and stained glass framed by powerful architecture, the buildings are astounding.

  • UAE Subsidies
    Abu Dhabi to hike power and water tariffs from January 1

    Earlier this month, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said that Abu Dhabi was looking to reform its system of subsidies for power and water to curb lavish use among residents. “We discussed it here at the policy level, particularly with the Abu Dhabi government, which indicated they are now looking at ways to streamline their subsidy policies and put in place something different, something better targeted,” said Harald Finger, the IMF’s head of mission for the UAE told Reuters. “This is particularly the case of the electricity and water subsidies.”

  • LNG
    Saudi Arabia to double natgas output by 2030, no exports planned

    "Saudi Arabia currently has no plans to export its gas or get into the (liquefied natural gas) business," he said.

  • Israel-Palestine
    Experts: No 3rd intifada yet, but little hope either

    Recent incidents have stirred fears in Israel of a return to 2002, then in the midst of a second intifada, or armed uprising, when the Israeli government reported 452 people died in suicide bombings and other attacks. On Monday alone, an Israeli soldier was stabbed to death on a Tel Aviv street while three Israelis were stabbed -- one fatally -- at the same West Bank hitchhiking post where three Israeli teens were kidnapped earlier this year. This comes after several incidents in which drivers ran into crowds on busy streets.

  • Turkey's Borders
    Turkey’s border security problem

    A senior security official in Ankara who has dealt with border security both in the field and at headquarters summarizes the situation: “In Turkey, the military gives priority only to the security of the border strip to a width of up to 600 meters, as it has no legislative authority in border areas outside the border strip and customs gates. The Ministry of Customs is tasked with dealing with exports and imports. Border crossing security is its secondary mission. Police are responsible for law and order in cities, and their presence at the border crossings is a secondary function. In short, while in Europe borders are supervised by a single body, we do exactly the opposite. If you study how the Reyhanli bombing attack in 2014 was carried out, you will see that the Turkish security bureaucracy has miserably failed on border security.”

  • Yemen
    AQAP continues escalation of attacks in Yemen, targets US ambassador

    Despite a Nov. 7 announcement that a new inclusive Yemeni cabinet was formed in an effort to defuse the ongoing political stalemate in the country, there has been no indication of a deescalation of terrorist activity by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

  • Saudia
    Saudi Arabian Airlines takes off with MAM

    The aim of the project is to improve Saudi Arabian Airlines’ management and storage workflow, and to make the edited content easy to access for workers so it can be used and catalogued. For this purpose, VSN has deployed a MAM-Archive system with five users licenced in a first phase throughout its VSNEXPLORER interface.

  • Al-Ahsa Terror Strike
    Al-Ahsa Terror attack ‘was funded from abroad’, source tells Asharq Alawsat

    The alleged perpetrators of last week’s attack in Al-Dalwah in Al-Ahsa received funds from abroad just days before they carried out their operation, an informed source from the security apparatus has told Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publication of Arab News.

  • U.S. Elections
    Power shift in U.S. Senate brings sterner tone to foreign policy debate

    The Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate will bring a tough new tone to the debate over Washington's foreign policy, with lawmakers expected use their new clout and power over the budget to promote a more interventionist foreign policy. While leaders of the Democratic-majority Senate mostly backed President Barack Obama's international goals, Republicans plan to pressure the White House to take a tougher line on Iran, Russia and Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria.