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  • Afghanistan
    Afghan front-runner Ghani says power-sharing agreement is near – The Washington Post

    Afghanistan’s rival presidential candidates will share power under a deal that is within two days of completion, front-runner Ashraf Ghani said Wednesday in an interview with The Washington Post. Ghani acknowledged that the long delay in declaring a winner of the June election has weakened Afghanistan and set back its political progress as U.S. and NATO forces prepare to depart by Dec. 31. But he said he and rival Abdullah Abdullah have worked to build a solid new foundation.

  • Saudi-Iraq
    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.

  • Information Technology
    Government IT spending fuels Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s innovation economy

    Overall IT spending in the Kingdom - the Middle East's largest IT market - is set grow by 23 percent from US$ 11.5 billion in 2014 to US$ 14.2 billion in 2017 according to IDC's report 'Saudi Arabia Vertical Markets 2013-2017 IT Spending Forecast'. Government will be the fastest-growing vertical in this period, with a compound annual growth rate of 12.9 percent, according to IDC. Guiding investment is the Kingdom's Ninth Development Plan, which projects a 27 percent increase in government spending from SAR 150 billion in 2009 to SAR 191 billion in 2014.

  • MERS and the Hajj
    Mers: Saudis in push to keep Hajj free from deadly virus

    Health officials in Saudi Arabia say they are doing all they can to avoid an outbreak of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) coronavirus at the annual Hajj pilgrimage next month. The BBC's Global Health Correspondent Tulip Mazumdar has been given rare access to the kingdom.

  • Women Driving
    Saudi businesswoman and member of a human rights group fined for driving herself to hospital

    A female member of a Saudi human rights organisation was reportedly fined by police after she drove herself to hospital. Aliyah Al Farid, a businesswoman and member of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), suffers from a chronic condition which means she is occasionally forced to visit hospital.

  • Afghanistan
    Afghan official says the government has nearly run out of money, needs U.S. bailout

    Afghanistan’s central government is nearly broke and needs a $537 million bailout from the United States and other international donors within “five or six days” to continue paying its bills, a senior Afghan finance official said Tuesday. Crippled by a growing budget shortfall, the Afghan government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars of easily accessible reserve funds this year, said Alhaj M. Aqa, the director general of the treasury at the Finance Ministry.

  • Public Health
    Saudi MOH Announces a MERS Case In Riyadh

    For the second day running, and the fifth case reported over the past 9 days, the Saudi MOH has announced a fresh MERS case, this time in Riyadh  which last reported a case 4 days ago (Sept 12th).  Essentially all we know is the patient is a 39 year old male, Ex-Pat who is not a HCW, and who is in intensive care. With the Hajj set to begin in just over two weeks, and with that the influx of more than 2 million pilgrims to the Kingdom, this recent uptick in cases is of particular concern.

  • GCC Markets
    Saudi market opening ushers in new era of GCC investment

    For international investors, the big prize behind the closed Saudi market is the treasure trove of well-run companies, often with plenty of cash in hand, catering to a growing, affluent population.

  • China and ISIS
    How China’s foreign and domestic policies may be fueling the Islamic State

    China’s policies toward Uighurs, which range from effectively banning Ramadan for Uighurs to favoring ethnic Han Chinese in the region’s economic development, have resulted in high levels of poverty in the Uighurs community—which fuels a narrative of anti-Muslim oppression and puts Beijing in the ISIL’s crosshairs. In a speech in July, ISIL leader Abu Bakr-Al Baghdadi named China as one of the regions where “Muslim rights are forcibly seized,” and released a map of the group’s global aspirations that included the vast swathe of China’s Xinjiang province.

  • Yemen
    Yemen’s Houthis advancing close to Saudi border

    Houthi forces are advancing in Yemen’s western Al-Hudaydah province, seeking to take control of a number of strategic areas including the port of Midi, close to the Yemeni–Saudi border, local sources told Asharq Al-Awsat.