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  • Drone Wars
    ISIS War Claims Heavy Toll On Drone, Intelligence Operators at Home

    Whether it’s providing intelligence to help the president of the United States decide on a long-term strategy or issuing real-time information to friendly forces in the middle of a firefight, Air Force operators supporting surveillance flights must work constantly to analyze and decipher agonizing amounts of data. In 2013 alone, the 480th’s 6,000 airmen processed 20 terabytes of data per day, found 50 improvised explosive devices and provided eyes from above during 300 firefights.

  • Drone Intelligence
    A Look Inside a Secret US Air Force Intelligence Center

    The intelligence center at Langley is one of 16 such sites on the U.S. mainland. There are two in the Pacific and another one in Europe. A mix of active-duty, National Guard and Reservists man these facilities. In all, more than 6,000 airmen make up the 480th. The unit here at Langley focuses on processing intelligence data from the Middle East using computers called the Distributed Common Ground System, or DCGS. The 480th receives about 20 terabytes of data each day. In 2013, the wing processed 460,000 hours of full-motion video, disseminated 2.6 million images and generated 1.7 million signals intelligence reports, according to Air Force officials.

  • Credit
    Saudi Arabia to introduce credit rating agency rules in September 2015

    Saudi Arabia’s capital market regulator will introduce rules for credit rating agencies next September, part of reforms aimed at modernising the financial sector of the world’s top oil exporter.

  • Israel-Palestine
    Israeli Generals Call for King Abdullah Peace Plan

    In late October, a group of 106 retired Israeli generals, former Mossad and Shin Bet chiefs issued an open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling for a resumption of the peace talks with the Palestinians, based on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative of then-Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah, now the King of Saudi Arabia. That Arab Peace Initiative was subsequently endorsed by the League of Arab States and the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC).

  • Afghanistan
    U.S. General: Afghan Forces’ Death Toll ‘Unsustainable’

    The second-ranking U.S. commander in Afghanistan says casualties suffered by Afghan security forces have reached a level that cannot be sustained in a successful fight against the Taliban. Lieutenant General Joseph Anderson told reporters at the Pentagon by video from his headquarters in Kabul on November 5 that the number of Afghan soldiers and police officers killed in battle rose by 6.5 percent so far this year compared to 2013.

  • ISIS Strategy
    War, Interrupted, Part I: The Roots of the Jihadist Resurgence in Iraq

    In the Sunni areas where the Iraqi government had little control, it did not take long for the Islamic State to slowly and methodically eliminate resistance one person at a time. For example, in the small but strategic town of Jurf ah Sakhar south of Baghdad, and on the Sunni-Shia fault line, there were 46 Awakening members reported killed between 2009 and 2013, in 27 different incidents. Most were shot singly or in pairs in the first three years of the campaign, and four were Sheiks from the local Janabi tribe and leaders of the council. By my count, 1,345 Awakening members across Iraq have been killed since the beginning of 2009, and this is a massive undercount as the data is only based on confirmed media reports of killings. More importantly, there are obvious patterns of activity that focus on the contested areas that the Islamic State wants to control.

  • Women
    WEF recognizes Saudi Arabia’s efforts on gender parity

    The Global Gender Gap Report 2014 named Saudi Arabia as one of the most improved countries in efforts to close the gender gap.

  • Foreign Aid
    Saudi generosity in donations should be utilized to spread our ‘soft power’

    Despite the fact that Saudi financial aid has greatly impacted those less fortunate around the world and assisted the international community to combat terrorism, these initiatives only managed to garner limited international recognition and therefore limited effectiveness in terms of raising the country’s global profile.

  • Saudi Statistics
    Shoura slams Statistics Agency

    The Shoura members said that the Statistics Agency was not providing accurate figures on the number of unemployed women, creating confusion in chalking out a plan to increase their numbers in the work force.

  • U.S. Presidential Powers
    Special report: America’s perpetual state of emergency

    In his six years in office, President Obama has declared nine emergencies, allowed one to expire and extended 22 emergencies enacted by his predecessors. Since 1976, when Congress passed the National Emergencies Act, presidents have declared at least 53 states of emergency — not counting disaster declarations for events such as tornadoes and floods, according to a USA TODAY review of presidential documents. Most of those emergencies remain in effect.