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  • Yemen
    UN Medical Relief Flights Continue From Yemen’s Capital

    Flights transporting Yemeni medical patients from rebel-held areas continued Saturday when a second plane carrying 24 patients took off from Sanaa bound for Jordan's capital, the U.N. health agency said. The U.N. flights, which began this week, are seen as a humanitarian breakthrough in the more than five-year-old conflict in the Arab world's poorest country. The conflict began with the 2014 takeover of the capital, Sanaa, by the rebel Houthis, who control much of the country's north.

  • Syria
    Syrian forces capture new areas from insurgents

    Syrian government forces have captured new areas from insurgents in their offensive in the north-west, as Turkey sends more reinforcements into the country, state media and opposition activists said. The weeks-long government offensive has created a humanitarian crisis with about 600,000 people having fled their homes in Syria’s last rebel stronghold since the beginning of December, according to the United Nations.

  • Yemen Civil War
    White House Confirms Killing of Terrorist Leader in Yemen

    The United States killed the leader of Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, the White House confirmed on Thursday. The confirmation came about a week after The New York Times first reported that the United States believed it had killed Qassim al-Rimi, the Qaeda leader, in January after months of tracing him. The C.I.A. carried out the airstrike using an unmanned drone, an intelligence official said.

  • Syria
    Syrian Government troops seize part of key Idlib town Saraqeb

    Syrian government troops have retaken parts of the strategic town of Saraqeb in the last rebel-held province, Idlib. Syrian army units besieged the town for two days, exchanging artillery fire with Turkish forces who were supporting Syrian rebels.

  • Hotels
    Hotel giant Hilton says to quadruple Saudi portfolio in five years

    Hotel giant Hilton has announced that it expects to quadruple its portfolio in Saudi Arabia during the next five years to more than 50 hotels, with a total of 16,000 rooms open across the kingdom. Hilton, which currently operates five of its brands in Saudi Arabia - Waldorf Astoria, Conrad, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, DoubleTree by Hilton and Hilton Garden Inn – said it will continue to introduce new brands to the country.

  • OPEC+
    Oil falls as Russia needs time on more OPEC+ cuts

    Oil prices slipped on Friday as Russia said it would need more time before committing to output cuts along with OPEC and other producers amid falling demand for crude as China battles the coronavirus epidemic.

  • Contract Soldiers
    Foreign Contract Soldiers in the Gulf

    Not surprisingly, the highest proportion of foreign contract soldiers serve in the Gulf’s three richest states, Qatar, the UAE, and Kuwait, where few young men have a strong economic incentive to sign up.

  • China
    Virus reveals China as global oil’s swing consumer

    China had been expected to consume 13.7 million bpd of crude in the first three months of 2020, according to Jefferies estimates. That’s second only to the United States, but without the latter’s huge domestic output. Those forecasts are now in shreds. Chinese consumption may fall by 25% in February – equivalent to more than 3 million bpd - the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. That’s a big problem given that the country accounts for 14% of global oil demand - double what it consumed at the time of the SARS virus in 2003.

  • UAE Gas
    Massive Gas Find Spurs UAE’s Pursuit of Self-Sufficiency

    Over a decade ago, Dubai’s domestic gas production dwindled effectively to zero, leading to total dependence on imports for its large demand and a major overhaul of the emirate’s energy strategy. Yet it has just announced a massive gas find jointly with the neighboring emirate of Abu Dhabi. The discovery could be transformational – if the emirates can overcome the challenges of producing and marketing the gas.

  • Iraq
    US taxpayers have spent over $2 trillion for the Iraq war, report says

    According to their estimates, the cost of the Iraq War to date would be $1,922 billion in current dollars — this figure includes funding appropriated by the Pentagon explicitly for the war, spending on the country by the State Department, the care of Iraq War veterans and interests on debt incurred for the 16 years of the US military's involvement in the country.