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  • Saudi-China
    Saudi Aramco Boosts Oil Investment In China’s Downstream

    Saudi Aramco signed on Thursday an agreement with the Zhejiang Free Trade Zone in China to facilitate the acquisition of 9 percent in a local refinery and further expand its downstream presence in the world’s largest oil importer.

  • Israel-Iran
    The Israel-Iran Shadow War Escalates and Breaks Into the Open

    Israel has carried out a series of attacks across the Middle East in recent weeks to prevent Iran from equipping its Arab allies with precision-guided missiles, drones and other sophisticated weapons that could challenge Israel’s defenses.

  • Retail
    Saudi shops warily push boundaries on prayer-time shutdown

    With burger patties sizzling over a hot grill, a Saudi eatery did the unthinkable as a muezzin's call to prayer sent Muslim worshippers scrambling to lower their shutters: It stayed open. The scene, amid a sweeping reform drive, was a striking contrast to the days when religious police wielded unbridled powers and drove people out of malls and shops to enforce the Islamic world's only mandatory prayer-time shutdown.

  • Houthi Attack
    Saudi-led coalition shoots down six Houthi missiles

    The missiles were launched from the Saada province against civilians in Jizan city, in the south-west of the kingdom, coalition spokesman Col Turki Al Malki told the Saudi News Agency.

  • Drones
    5 times in history enemies shot down a U.S. drone

    On Aug. 20, the United States linked the downing of an MQ-9 Reaper over Yemen by Houthi forces to Iran. Iran has supplied Houthi fighters with weapons and missiles in the past and the attack on the Reaper, reported by CNN, follows a summer of forces exchanging fires and downing drones.

  • Yemen
    US drone shot down over Yemen

    The US believes the missile was provided to Houthi rebels by Iran, said the official, who added that it was not immediately clear if the drone was being operated by the US military or the intelligence community.

  • Lebanon
    Goldman Says Lebanon May Cross Distress Threshold With Downgrade

    Lebanon’s sovereign ranking will probably be cut deeper into junk by S&P Global Ratings within days, putting its bonds into a category considered vulnerable to nonpayment as the country struggles to claw back enough foreign currency, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

  • India-Pakistan
    Kashmir lockdown: Activists report on India-administered state

    On the eve of India's Independence Day, a team of activists and scholars released a report that paints a bleak picture of Indian-administered Kashmir, challenging official government accounts that life is returning to normal amid an indefinite curfew and communications blackout imposed just before the restive region's special status was stripped by Parliament on Aug. 6.

  • Tunisia
    Islamists Buck Regional Crackdown With Tunisia Presidential Bid

    Tunisia’s moderate Islamist party Ennahda will field its first-ever candidate for presidential elections, even as some of the Middle East’s major powers wage a far-reaching crackdown on broadly similar groups. The party has chosen its 71-year-old deputy, Abdelfattah Mourou, as “an expression of the movement’s confidence in democracy, the republic and the Tunisian revolution,” Ennahda leader Rashid Ghannouchi was cited as saying late Tuesday by Mosaique FM, a local broadcaster.

  • War in Yemen
    UAE military drawdown raises stakes in south Yemen

    The Houthis have stepped up missile and drone attacks on Saudi cities, but this is the first serious attack by the group on Aden since it was captured by the coalition in 2015.