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More Airstrikes in Saudi Arabia as Soldiers Said to be Captured by Houthis
- September 22,2015
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- SUSTG Team
Two Saudi soldiers fighting with the Arab coalition in Yemen have been detained by Houthi rebels and three others are missing as Saudi airstrikes continue to pound targets across the war-torn country today. The two Saudi soldiers were on the ground in Yemen and “are detainees and not hostages,” according to Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asseri of […]
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Report: Crane collapse and subsequent action against Binladin Group ‘deeply troubled Saudi King Salman’
- September 21,2015
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- SUSTG Team
The collapse of a crane in Mecca on September 11th “deeply troubled” Saudi Arabia’s King Salman as analysts say the King took unusually swift response in sanctioning the Binladin group. According to an AFP report which cited unnamed western diplomats, authorities were “embarrassed” by the accident and expressed surprise that the company was sanctioned only […]
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The Middle East’s Migration Crisis Brings Regional Challenge Home to Europe, Gulf States
- September 15,2015
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- SUSTG Team
As a global crisis emerges on how and even if it is possible to accommodate the displaced from Syria’s conflict, a once-distant conflict for many in Western nations and in Gulf states is now a real and visible problem that cannot be ignored. With hundreds of thousands of migrants in exodus – many of whom have left Syria as […]
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Yemen Surge: 10k Coalition Troops Pour into Yemen as Airstrikes Continue to Pound Houthi Targets
- September 9,2015
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- SUSTG Team
A Saudi-led alliance launched more air strikes on Yemen’s capital and more foreign troops were reported to be moving into the country, Reuters reports, an escalation in coalition involvement. Local sources cited by Reuters report an increase in Qatari, Sudanese, and Egyptian forces entering Yemen, while Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Gazette, citing Al Arabiya TV, reports […]
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King Salman’s Visit to Washington and Strengthening U.S.-Saudi Business Ties
- September 3,2015
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- SUSTG Team
In an op-ed today in Al Arabiya, Patrick Ryan of SUSRIS notes that while geopolitical issues are making headlines in advance of King Salman’s first visit to Washington as King, “no less visible will be the importance of the historic business relationship between the kingdom and America as demonstrated by an expected high-powered, day-long investment […]
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Oil in Downward Spiral as Global Markets Push Prices to Fresh Lows
- August 25,2015
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- SUSTG Team
Recent turmoil in global markets, originating in China and spreading to markets globally, have put added pressure on an already battered price of oil as investors look for the bottom. Oil has fallen by about $60 in the last year, and instability in markets this week has increased downward pressure on the commodity with a 6% […]
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Saudi Arabia’s Women are Registering to Vote for the First Time Ever
- August 20,2015
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- SUSTG Team
Voter registration for women began in the parts of Saudi Arabia this last weekend in a milestone for women’s rights. The first registered women voters in Saudi Arabia comes four years after King Abdullah announced that women will be granted equal voting rights. “The participation of the Saudi women in the municipal elections as voters and […]
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Saudi Oil Exports Boosted to Record Numbers as IMF Urges Fiscal Policy Changes and Greater Economic Diversification
- August 19,2015
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Arabia’s oil exports rebounded in June from a five-month low as the largest OPEC producer boosted output to a record, Bloomberg reports. Exports climbed to 7.37 million barrels a day from 6.94 million barrels in May, according to JODI data. Saudi Arabia told OPEC its June production was a record, exceeding a previous all-time high set in […]
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Saudi Super Cup in London Brings Saudi Football Fans a Taste of Home Sport in the United Kingdom
- August 14,2015
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Arabian football clubs Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal squared off in the King’s Cup, the championship of the Saudi Professional League, in the United Kingdom to the delight of Saudi nationals in the UK. The UK print and online newspaper The Guardian noted that while the quality of the game may not have compared to the English Premier League gold standard, […]
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Crown Prince Naif Visits Site of ISIS Attack as Leadership Vows Action Against ‘Criminals’
- August 11,2015
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- SUSTG Team
Last week’s mosque attack in the Asir region of Saudi Arabia will not divide Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Naif said as he visited the site of the massacre. “The terrorist bombing revealed the extent of hatred of these criminals as well as their disregard for the sanctity of God’s houses and the lives of innocent people, […]
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The United States levied unusually harsh criticism at Israel on Tuesday, denouncing plans to seize a large tract of West Bank land for Israeli homes. The State Department called on Israel to reverse its announced plan to appropriate nearly 1,000 acres in the occupied West Bank. “We are deeply concerned about the declaration of a large area as ‘state land’ to be used for expanded settlement building,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement. “We call on the Government of Israel to reverse this decision.”
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JournalismIslamic State Militant Beheads U.S. Journalist Steven Sotloff in Video, Group Says
American journalist Steven Sotloff has been executed and beheaded by the Islamic State group, according to a new video posted on Monday.
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America’s favorable global position allows it to take a measured approach to most international events. The United States has a large and diverse economy, conventional military superiority and a powerful nuclear deterrent. It is insulated from most threats by two vast oceans and faces no serious rivals near its shores.
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This should be the hour of coordination and brainstorming between the U.S.., its allies in Europe and the Middle East and the leadership of the appointed western-backed fighters. But according to Gen. Abdul-Ilah al Bashir, the FSA’s embittered chief of staff, they just aren’t talking.
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IsraelIsrael police find body of missing U.S. student
Israeli police said on Thursday they had found the body of a 23-year-old American student who went missing last week near a forest in Jerusalem and that they did not suspect a criminal motive.
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SyriaU.S. Identifies Citizens Joining Rebels in Syria
American intelligence and law enforcement agencies have identified nearly a dozen Americans who have traveled to Syria to fight for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the militant group that the Obama administration says poses the greatest threat to the United States since Al Qaeda before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Iraq AirstrikesU.S. relies on Persian Gulf bases for airstrikes in Iraq
The U.S. military is relying on bases in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere in the Middle East to carry out airstrikes in Iraq but is masking the locations and other details about the units and aircraft involved to avoid embarrassing partners in the region.
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ISLAMIC STATESyria warns against U.S. strikes on Islamic State on its soil
Syria warned the Obama administration on Monday not to extend its air war against the Islamic State group into Syria, as the militants celebrated another key victory over government forces in the north of the country.
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MilitaryIn deaths of civilians in Gaza, U.S. weapons sales to Israel come under scrutiny
What Israel used in that Aug. 3 strike, according to the United Nations, was a Hellfire missile — a U.S.-made weapon. The incident was one of many in the ongoing six-week-old war in the Gaza Strip in which weapons sold to Israel by the United States and some European nations have played a prominent role.
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