MUST-READS

• PKK
  Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish rebels as tensions stoked by Islamic State fight

  Turkish warplanes have carried out airstrikes against an outlawed Kurdish group for the first time since a 2013 cease-fire, reports said Tuesday, in attacks that underscored the regional political spillover from battles against the Islamic State.

  • Washington Post - Islamic State third Iraqi army base in Anbar after military retreat
  • Wall Street Journal - ISIS Gains Territory Despite Weeks of Bombing by U.S., Allies, Raising Questions About Strategy
  • Reuters - Islamic State forces 180,000 to flee in Iraq
  • BBC - Islamic State crisis: Kurds 'recapture key Kobane hill'
  • New York Times - Islamic State Propagandists Admit Sexual Enslavement of Yazidis
• Travel and Tourism
  New tourism strategy to create more jobs in Saudi Arabia

  Saudi Arabia will use tourism as an economic tool to create more jobs for Saudis as well as to develop small and medium enterprises (SMEs), according to the revised tourism strategy, approved by the Shoura Council on Monday.

• Military Strategy
  Analysis: America’s Big Military Mistake: Cutting Land Forces Too Quickly

  In the 1920s, the advent of the airplane was going to make all forms of combat on land obsolete.  That turned out badly wrong.  In the 1950s, nuclear weapons were going to replace traditional ground forces for many missions.  That left the Army unprepared for Vietnam in the 1960s, and it resorted to a firepower-heavy form of warfare that was arguably its least impressive wartime performance in American military history.  In the 1980s and 1990s, fresh off Vietnam, the Army itself decided not to prepare for such counterinsurgency scenarios any longer.  That worked out fine for Operation Desert Storm in 1991 but much less well for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

• Society
  Saudi women in Shoura Council ‘an important landmark’

  One of the most important landmarks of the era of Custodian of Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah was allowing women to participate for the first time in the Shoura Council, said a researcher from King Faisal University in Abha, Al-Riyadh daily reported.

• Automotive
  Saudi Arabian auto parts demand valued at $3.8bn

  Demand for automotive spare parts in Saudi Arabia has been valued at $3.8bn, according global analysts Frost & Sullivan.

• Rebuilding Egypt
  Egypt Needs More Investments, Not Aid

  First the good news: Egypt’s foreign reserves ticked up to $16.87 billion at the end of September – enough to comfortably cover imports for more than three months as the country’s economy strengthens and foreign investors continue to buy Cairo-listed stocks.

• Kobane
  U.S. frustration rises as Turkey withholds military help from besieged Kobane

  “They want the U.S. to come in and take care of the problem,” a senior official said, but the Pentagon has said U.S. strikes alone can’t drive the Islamic State from Kobane, on Turkey’s border.

  • Foreign Policy - Destroying a $30,000 Islamic State Pickup Truck Can Cost Half a Million Dollars
  • Reuters - ISIS Seizes One Third of Syrian Town Kobani: Monitor
  • Washington Post - U.S. strikes Islamic State targets inside Mosul
  • AP - Buffer zone for Turkey debated in militants' fight
• Tadawul Opening
  Saudi capital markets regulator seeks local opinion on stock market liberalization

  The Saudi capital markets regulator is seeking the opinions of stock market analysts, economists and a host of other local financial experts on final steps to liberalize the country’s stock market for foreign investment, informed sources have told Asharq Al-Awsat, as the bourse prepares to launch the region’s biggest-ever IPO later this month.

• Islamic State
  Brother fears missing Saudi student now Islamist militant

  Meshaal Suhaimi, the Saudi student who “mysteriously” disappeared in Malaysia last month is believed to have joined one of the terrorist groups in Syria or Iraq.

• Afghanistan
  5.7m Afghan refugees return in past decade

  Returning migrants are increasingly avoiding rural areas of their origins and moving to urban areas, especially Kabul, in search of security and livelihoods.

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