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Under Obama’s plan to aid the Iraqi government, the number of U.S. troops in Iraq is expected to grow to about 3,000 from just under 2,000 now. Not only have they been deployed in Baghdad and the northern city of Irbil, but in recent weeks they also have been sent to Anbar and to training sites flanking the capital.
Most Gulf stock markets pulled back on Monday after gaining strongly in the two previous sessions, but Saudi Arabia’s petrochemicals sector rose after Brent crude oil climbed back above $60 per barrel.
At some point later on this week, the 2015 Saudi budget will be posted on the website of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), the kingdom’s central bank. This event is rarely a cause for wider excitement, but this year is different. Why? It’s the rest of the world’s first opportunity to see how the planet’s biggest oil exporter will react to the dramatic fall in the price of crude. Will the long procession of expansionary budgets come to an end? Is there panic in the palaces of Riyadh?
Truth be told, what's new does not only lie in the sheikh's boldness to defy traditional norms but also in the space of freedom which allowed the transmission of forbidden messages. It lies in the media figures' courage, some clerics being content to voice their opinions against Ghamidi without pursuing him and in the youths', sheikhs', women's and men's engagement in the controversy. Ghamidi's move created an atmosphere and a developed environment for interaction.
A religious controversy laced with a deep social issue has rapidly escalated in Saudi Arabia after the Grand Mufti joined the debate and said that Muslim women must cover their faces in public. The storm was stirred by religious scholar Ahmad Al Ghamdi who said that women did not have to wear the niqab, the face-covering veil, an inevitable feature of the Saudi society.
Iran has supplied weapons, money and training to the Shi'ite Houthi militia that seized Yemen's capital in September, as Tehran steps up its regional power struggle with Saudi Arabia, Yemeni and Iranian officials say.
How is it possible for a woman to look fabulous in the shapeless cloak of the abaya? Similarly, abaya style and the choice of veil, embroidered colors versus austere black, and pairings with designer handbags and heels or Uggs all made me wonder what the abaya actually communicated about religion, ideas of gender, and personal style. In addition to my fascination with women’s clothing, I experienced shock at the discovery that I rather liked the look of men in dresses and couldn’t stop thinking about when and how pants became the official menswear of most of the world.
Oil was dealt a series of blows on Wednesday. Among them, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said oil inventories rose by 1.5 million barrels in the week ending Dec. 5, against forecasts for a decrease in supplies of around 3 million barrels.
Afghanistan's fragile economy has lost around a third of its value in the past year as international aid organizations that poured in cash for more than a decade have drastically scaled back after Western forces effectively ended their 13-year war against the Taliban.
Leaders from across the Middle East have paid tribute to the late King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, who died on Friday morning.
