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Syria and ISCombat Reversals Pressure Syria’s Assad, Complicating Efforts Against Islamic State
In a span of weeks, the Islamic State has overrun military bases in Syria's east. In the west, the regime faces a coalition of rebels that threatens the heartland of Mr. Assad's Alawite minority and could alter the course of Syria's multi-sided civil war. Alawites, a Shiite-linked group that forms the backbone of the regime and pro-government militias, are angry over the loss of hundreds of troops last month after the Islamic State captured an air base in the northeastern province of Raqqa.
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Islamic StateOpinion: The Saudis Can Crush ISIS
Saudi Arabia is the only authority in the region with the power and legitimacy to bring ISIS down. Having effectively eradicated Al Qaeda in the kingdom, the Saudi government, with its experience fighting terrorism, is uniquely positioned to deal with ISIS, which is, after all, an Al Qaeda-aligned organization. The kingdom has built up an impressive counterterrorism program and its counterterrorism strategies are considered some of the most sophisticated and effective in the world.
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U.S. Foreign PolicyKerry heads to Jordan, Saudi Arabia to rally against Islamic State
Kerry plans to meet with his counterparts in Jeddah and Amman, following a meeting of the Arab League on Sunday that endorsed action against the group, if not explicitly joining the cause. Both kingdoms have publicly allied themselves with the US in its fight against the terrorist organization, which has swept throughout eastern Syria and northern Iraq since June.
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DiplomacySaudi embassy shuts down in Yemen
The embassy’s closure follows growing tensions between the Yemeni government and Houthi protesters in Sana'a who are calling for a new government and the reinstatement of fuel subsidies. In a similar development, the Saudi Higher Education Ministry issued an urgent decree to evacuate 60 Saudi students who are studying at the University of Science and Technology (UST) in Sana'a.
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TurkeyTurkey Is Courted by U.S. to Help Fight ISIS
The Obama administration began the work on Monday of trying to determine exactly what roles the members of its fledgling coalition of countries to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria will play, with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel huddled with the leaders of the one country the administration has called “absolutely indispensable” to the fight: Turkey.
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TransportationSaudi to award deal for rail within GCC
Saudi Arabia is about to award a contract to construct nearly 663 km of rail lines within the planned train network in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the head of the Saudi railways organisation (SRO) said in remarks published on Monday.
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SolarSaudi builder al-Khodari says to diversify into solar, nuclear energy
Major Saudi Arabian construction firm Abdullah Abdul Mohsin Al Khodari Sons Co said on Sunday that it would diversify into solar and nuclear energy.
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Western SaharaVICE Video – The Sahara’s Forgotten War
If you ask the linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, the Arab Spring did not begin in Tunisia in 2011, but with the October 2010 protests in the town of Gdeim Izik, in Western Sahara's occupied territories. The former Spanish colony has been illegally occupied by Morocco since 1975. Its territory is divided in two by a 1,677-mile long sand wall and surrounded by some 7 million land mines.
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LebanonIslamic State Is Coming, Graffiti Warns Lebanese, as the Band Plays On – Bloomberg
The mood of mockery belied the nervousness among many Lebanese that they may be Islamic State’s next target. The country is part of the Levant, where the Sunni militant group, previously called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, seeks to extend the caliphate it has established in parts of Iraq and Syria.
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RailSaudi Arabia mulls high-speed Riyadh to Dammam rail link
Saudi Arabia's government will study whether to build a high-speed railway line between Riyadh and Dammam, capital of the country's oil-rich Eastern Province, transport consultancy Consultrans said on Friday.
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