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Saudi’s New Minister of Commerce and Investment Dr. Majed Al-Qasabi to Meet with Business Leaders at U.S. Chamber of Commerce Today
Saudi Arabia’s New Minister of Commerce and Investment, Dr. Majed bin Abdullah Al-Qasabi, will meet with business and private sector leaders today at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. The private roundtable discussion is part of the U.S.-Saudi CEO Summit initiative which is a partnership between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the […]
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Dispute Between U.N.’s Ban Ki Moon, Saudi Arabia Spills into the Public
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said in public comments on Thursday that Saudi Arabia had exerted “unacceptable” pressure on the world body after a U.N. report blacklisted a Saudi-led military coalition for killing children in Yemen, according to reports. Moon said financing for humanitarian operations in the Palestinian territories, South Sudan and Syria would be compromised if […]
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Saudi Arabia’s National Transformation Program Released
Saudi Arabia has unveiled its long-awaited National Transformation Program (NTP), a 112-page document outlining Saudi Arabia’s strategic objectives in achieving its previously-announced “Vision 2030” initiative as well as identifying the challenges faced by government bodies in the economic and development sectors. “The National Transformation Program is one of the executive programs supporting Vision 2030. The program […]
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Uber Scores the Largest Single Investment Ever Made in a Private Company from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund; Snags $3.5b
In what is being called the largest single cash investment ever made into a private company, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has invested $3.5 billion for 5% of the on-demand car service Uber. The investment is the first of likely many more investments into technology as Saudi Arabia looks to act on its ‘Vision 2030’ […]
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Saudi, Iran Row Over 2016 Hajj Heats Up
Iran says it will not allow its pilgrims to attend the Hajj this year following weeks of talks with Saudi Arabia, according to reports. According to Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, Adel Al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia would not acquiesce to “unacceptable” demands. Al-Jubeir commented that, “Iran refused to sign the memorandum and was practically demanding the right to hold […]
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Comprehensive Document Outlining Saudi Arabia’s Counterterrorism Strategy, Successes Released
The Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington has distributed a comprehensive document outlining the Kingdom’s efforts to fight terrorism. The detailed publication was distributed to Congress as debate regarding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks heat up following the recent unanimous Senate vote to pass the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) bill. The Kingdom […]
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Senate Passes JASTA Despite Stiff Opposition from White House, Saudi Leaders
The Senate on Tuesday passed H.R.3815, also known as the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), a bill that would allow the families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to sue Saudi Arabia over its alleged support for terrorism, despite stiff opposition from the White House and Saudi leaders. This is the second time […]
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Responding to Bloomberg Freedom of Information Act Request, U.S. Treasury Reveals How Much U.S. Debt is Held by Saudi Arabia
The U.S. Treasury Department revealed for the first time ever how much debt Saudi Arabia is holding, breaking an unusual and longstanding policy of secrecy regarding how much the Kingdom holds. Saudi Arabia held $116.8 billion in U.S. debt at the end of March. That is down 6% from its highest level in January 2016. Bloomberg first reported the […]
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Saudi General’s New Warning on Yemen’s Capital Underscores Importance of Latest U.N.-Backed Peace Talks
The Saudi-led coalition will fight to regain Yemen’s capital city from Houthi rebels if current peace talks backed by the United Nations collapse, according to Saudi Arabia’s Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri, who has been the official spokesman for the Saudi military during the conflict. The threat underscores the importance to Saudi Arabia of bringing a lasting solution to […]
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Graphic: Saudi Arabia Reshuffles Government Leaders, Modifies Ministries
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman issued a Royal Order on Saturday, May 7th, 2016 making changes to the government structure and key leaders. The Royal Order follows the recently released ‘Vision 2030’ economic and development plan to transform the Saudi economy and society into the 21st Century. The full text of the changes as issued by […]
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Iraq Army Woos Deserters Back to War on Islamic State
Even as the government has continued to equip volunteers, the de facto amnesty for deserters is an acknowledgment that the army desperately needs experienced soldiers — even ones who ran — for a force that is sustaining heavy losses despite the American-led airstrike campaign against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
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Pentagon says it will take years to retrain Iraqi forces. Why so long?
The assassination and intimidation campaign waged by Islamist militants, as well as the cronyism practiced by the former Iraqi prime minister, have led to an erosion of confidence, says the retired general who took command of the training effort for Iraqi security forces in 2007.
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Iraq exports more oil from southern terminals far from conflict
Three months after an advance by Islamic State into northern Iraq sent oil prices soaring to $115 a barrel, the fighting has not reduced Iraq's exports from the south, the main outlet for its crude to world markets. Exports from Iraq's southern terminals have averaged 2.58 million barrels per day (bpd), according to shipping data for the first 23 days of September tracked by Reuters. Two industry sources who monitor the exports had similar estimates.
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President Barack Obama to meet with Iraqi, Egyptian leaders
Obama’s meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Thursday is expected to be the first face-to-face meeting between the two men. Egypt has been pivotal in U.S. efforts to fight terrorism and rein in violence between Israel and Gaza, but the U.S. has objected to strong-arm tactics by al-Sisi’s government, such as the jailing of journalists and figures from the opposition Muslim Brotherhood.
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Oil-rich Kirkuk in Iraq’s north fears attack by Islamic State
In recent weeks, international attention has focused on Islamic State advances elsewhere in the Kurdish region, such as near the strategic Mosul dam and the city of Irbil, capital of semiautonomous Iraqi Kurdistan. U.S. airstrikes have helped push back the militants — and provided a tactical and psychological lift for peshmerga fighters, who fell back last month in a humiliating retreat.
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The New Iraqi Prime Minister: A Change in Style or Substance?
One salient issue that remains unaddressed, or at least unanswered, concerns the key security ministries of Abbadi’s new cabinet. Ever since Iraq’s first democratic government was seated in 2006, filling the security ministries with leaders acceptable to all participants in the cabinet has proved to be an enormous challenge.
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Saudi Arabia and Iraq to halt media attacks on each other
Sources in both countries confirmed that relations were on the path of improvement as the countries were seeking reopening embassies, monitoring their international borders to stop infiltration and resuming work on security agreements which were all but suspended under the administration of former Prime Minister Noori al-Maliki.
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House approves Obama’s Iraq-Syria military strategy amid skepticism
The vote placed Congress one step closer to authorizing the third significant U.S. military operation in Iraq in the past quarter century, and it put lawmakers on record approving U.S. engagement in the years-long Syrian civil war. It delivered Obama much-needed domestic political support as he seeks an international coalition to combat the growing threat of Islamist terrorism in the Middle East. But the tally — 273 to 156 — also revealed widespread misgivings in both parties about the plan’s chances of success, even among lawmakers who voted in favor of it.
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Saudi Arabia to reopen embassy in Iraq
Saudi Foreign Ministry spokesman Osama Nugali said on Saturday that the decision was made following a meeting between Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal and his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari in the Saudi Red Sea port of Jeddah earlier this year, English-language newspaper Arab News reported.
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‘American War Generals’ a sobering reflection on U.S. failures in Iraq
As the U.S. escalates its campaign against jihadists in Iraq and Syria, a new documentary offers a cautionary tale about putting too much faith in technology and forgetting hard-fought lessons from the past. “American War Generals,” which airs Sunday at 8 p.m. on the National Geographic Channel, looks at how the U.S. military recovered from its disastrous endeavor in Vietnam, remade itself into an all-volunteer force that focused on fighting conventional wars, and then came close to defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan as it faced a type of enemy it vowed never to fight again.
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