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  • Education
    Scholarship program brings Middle Eastern women to New College in Florida

    The group from Israel, Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are in their first year at New College of Florida. All are on a full, four-year scholarship, participating in the Daughters For Life Scholars program, an educational opportunity meant to help women from the Middle East make a difference in the world.

  • Iraqi Army
    Why Iraqi army can’t fight, despite $25 billion in U.S. aid, training

    "The army became Maliki's private militia," said retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, who was in charge of military training in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. Iraqis in Shiite-dominated greater Baghdad generally support the army, he said. But he also acknowledged that the army cannot defend the surrounding "Baghdad belt" without the help of thousands of Shiite militiamen Kamil calls "volunteers," particularly because areas just to the north, west and south have a Sunni majority.

  • U.S.-Afghanistan
    Top US commander of Afghan war reassessing US withdrawal timeline

    In a phone interview from Kabul, Campbell said he was "beginning now to take a hard look" at what effect delays in concluding a bilateral security agreement between the United States and Afghanistan and the months of uncertainty over the country's presidential elections have had on the preparedness of the Afghan military. Afghan forces have been taking heavy casualties in recent months while they battle the resurgent Taliban.

  • MERS
    WHO MERS update for Saudi Arabia

    Globally, WHO has been notified of 897 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV, including at least 325 related deaths.

  • Saudi-Lebanon
    French-Saudi Arms deal for Lebanon to be inked today

    Saudi Arabia and France will on Tuesday seal a deal to provide Lebanon's army with USD 3 billion worth of French weapons, with Riyadh footing the bill, a Saudi daily and a French source had said yesterday.

  • Jabhat Al-Nusra
    U.S. officials consider striking another militant group in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra

    U.S. officials are weighing whether to broaden the air campaign in Syria to strike a militant group that is a rival to the Islamic State and that is poised to take over a strategically vital corridor from Turkey. Extremists from the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group were said Monday to be within a few miles of the Bab ­al-Hawa crossing in northwestern Syria on the Turkish border, one of only two openings through which the moderate Free Syrian Army receives military and humanitarian supplies provided by the United States and other backers.

  • Combating Extremism
    Saudi Arabia mobilizes clergy and media against jihadi recruitment

    Informed by its previous experience, the kingdom is using an array of tools against jihadi recruitment apart from the media. A royal decree in February ordered long jail terms for people who went to fight overseas or helped others do so, or for those giving moral or material aid to groups including Islamic State and al Qaeda's official offshoot in Syria, the Nusra Front. Several people have already been convicted. Top clerics including the Grand Mufti and members of the Senior Council of Scholars, the highest religious bodies in the kingdom, have repeatedly denounced militant groups in sermons and fatwas. While some senior government-appointed clerics have described the Syrian war as a jihad, they have made clear it is one that should be fought by Syrians, not by Saudis.

  • Sports
    Saudi club demands investigation into finals refs

    Angry Al Hilal officials are demanding an investigation into the appointment and performance of match officials in the Saudi club's 1-0 aggregate loss to Western Sydney in the Asian Champions League finals, describing the outcome as "a black spot in the history of Asian football."

  • Sports Venues
    Aramco gets bids for 11 stadiums

    The new stadiums each with a capacity to accommodate 45,000 spectators, will be built in much the same way the state-of-the-art King Abdullah Sports City located about 50 km from Jeddah was built. A pre-bid meeting was held with selected groups in Bahrain on September 26. The bidders have been asked to submit their unit rates for work as Aramco has fast-tracked the scheme and the final designs have yet to be completed.

  • Sectarian Violence
    Gunmen kill five in Saudi Arabia, six suspects arrested: SPA

    Gunmen shot dead at least five people in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday, in what local residents said was an attack on Shi'ite Muslim worshippers marking one of their most important religious anniversaries.