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Beware the Siren Call of Jihad
- August 27,2012
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- SUSTG Team
There’s a full-court press, likely at the instigation of Saudi Arabia’s government, to discourage would-be jihadis from traveling up to Syria. Saudi Gazette/Okaz report that a wide array of authority figures are warning enthusiastic youths of the potential dangers and about how their brothers and cousins fell into traps in Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Iraq. Usefully, […]
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Saudis Back Syria Rebels, Mindful of Past
- August 16,2012
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- Lucien Zeigler
Overcome by the suffering of civilians in warring Syria, a professor in Saudi Arabia’s capital strips off his watch on live television to give as aid. A Saudi bride on her wedding night offers up her entire dowry of $13,000. Parents bring their children to donation centers set up around the Saudi kingdom, watching proudly […]
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Obama authorizes secret U.S. support for Syrian rebels
- August 2,2012
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- Lucien Zeigler
President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said. Obama’s order, approved earlier this year and known as an intelligence “finding,” broadly permits the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide support that could […]
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The Middle East fights the Flame, but virus spreads anyway
- June 7,2012
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- SUSTG Team
Two years ago there was Stuxnet, a virus that targeted Iranian uranium-enrichment infrastructure. Now Flame, a mutating piece of malware, is continuing to spread, infecting more than 1,000 Windows-powered computers across the Middle East. It’s centered on Iran, but has also spread to Israel and Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and even Sudan. Flame is a huge virus — 20 megabytes […]
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Opening the TASI: What You Need to Know
- May 15,2012
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- Hussein Abusaaq
Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter and the Middle East’s biggest economy, is about to complete a gradual process to open its stock market, known as the Tadawul or TASI, directly to international investors for the first time. The initial step toward this action was to give other GCC countries the right to invest […]
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Saudi Perspective on the Middle East: Obaid
- May 14,2012
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- SUSTG Team
In this SUSRIS exclusive presentation, the “Saudi Perspective on the Middle East: The View from Riyadh” assessment provides: the background and context for Saudi diplomacy — assets and characteristics; economic and energy data; sources of regional instability; the “New Gulf Union”; profile of Gulf defense configurations; the Kingdom’s role in regional stabilization and its political and […]
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Saudi Defense Minister Prince Salman Visits Pentagon, White House
- April 12,2012
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Defense Minister Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz held talks at the Pentagon on Wednesday that focused on the crisis in Syria, hours before a ceasefire deadline was due to expire. The Saudi defense chief later held talks with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office.
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Water Brings Green to Saudi Arabia
- March 30,2012
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- SUSTG Team
Over the last two-and-a-half decades, a series of NASA’s Landsat satellites have captured these pictures of the growing agriculture industry in the northern reaches of the Syrian Desert in Saudi Arabia, not far from Jordan. Farmers use a technique called center-pivot irrigation to bring up water from below the desert floor to grow wheat and […]
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Secretary of State Clinton to Visit Saudi on Friday and Saturday
- March 26,2012
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- SUSTG Team
Clinton will be in Saudi Arabia’s capital of Riyadh Friday and Saturday. There, she’ll meet with Saudi King Abdullah and participate in an event dedicated to the “strategic cooperation” between the U.S. and Gulf Arab states. Washington and many of its allies say Syrian President Bashar Assad has lost all legitimacy in a year of […]
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What to Know About the TASI Opening
- February 29,2012
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- Hussein Abusaaq
Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter and the Middle East’s biggest economy, is about to complete a gradual process to open its stock market, known as the Tadawul or TASI, directly to international investors for the first time. The initial step toward this action was to give other GCC countries the right to invest […]
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Turkish air space closed to planes carrying troops from Russia to Syria, broadcaster reports
Cavusoglu said if progress is made in negotiations, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had agreed that a meeting could be held in Turkey.
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Iran Entangled: Iran and Hezbollah’s Support to Proxies Operating in Syria
Drawing on open sources and interviews with subject matter experts, this report investigates the nature of Iranian and LH support to proxies operating in Syria from 2011 to 2019. While the nature of Iran’s proxy network is dynamic, it is useful to investigate the network at its peak years to understand existing and potential future structures and capabilities for Iranian external operations.
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Explosive charges used in recent attack on U.S. troops in Syria- Pentagon
A recent attack on U.S. forces in Syria was the result of explosives being placed at a facility hosting troops in eastern Syria and not rocket fire, the Pentagon said on Monday. Earlier this month, the U.S.-led coalition said four U.S. personnel suffered minor injuries after "indirect fire" on a base in Syria known as the Green Village.
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Airing of Ramadan series on Saudi-owned channel signals return of Syrian TV drama
The Arabic-language show, “Suspended Sentence” shot outside Damascus is “the first social drama made entirely by Syrians to air on a Saudi-owned TV channel since 2011”, when the country’s war erupted, said director Seif Elsbei.
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The echoes of Syria grow louder in Ukraine
The Russians “are willing to devour the green and the dry,” said Radwan Alhomsy, a Syrian activist in southern Turkey, deploying an Arabic idiom meaning to destroy everything in an interview with the New York Times last month. “They don’t care about the international community or anything else. We saw that in Syria. Burning schools is not new to us. It’s land they want to take, and they will take it.”
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Four US troops injured in rocket attack on base in Syria
Four American troops are being treated for minor injuries and evaluated for traumatic brain injury after a Thursday indirect fire attack on the Green Village base in eastern Syria, according to a release from Operative Inherent Resolve. Two rockets hit two support buildings, the release said.
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Shelling of rebel village in northern Syria kills 4 students
Syrian government forces on Monday shelled a rebel-held village in northwestern Syria, the country's last major opposition stronghold, killing four students on their way to school, opposition activists said. The shelling targeted the village of Maaret al-Naasan in Idlib province, which is home to more than 3 million people, many of them internally displaced by the country's civil war which erupted after a brutal military crackdown against a popular uprising in 2011.
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Syria’s Education Crisis: A Sustainable Approach After 11 Years of Conflict
After 11 years of war in Syria, the COVID-19 pandemic, and an economic crisis, education for Syrian children and youth has been severely disrupted, leaving more than 2.4 million out of school.
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UN: ‘Syria’s devastation finds few parallels in recent history’
Griffiths stated: "Over 350,000 people have been killed and nearly 14 million people have been displaced from their homes. Basic services have been destroyed. Five million children born since the start of the conflict have known nothing but hardship and nothing but war." He added: "Civilians continue to be killed and injured along front line areas of northwest and northeast Syria," citing that 18 civilians were killed in northwest Syria in February.
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Assad’s first visit to an Arab country since the Syrian war began
The UAE has been one of the few Arab countries within recent years that have been more open to engagement with Assad’s regime compared to neighboring states.
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