MUST-READS

• Syria
  5 Years On, Syria’s Moderate Rebels Are Exhausted And Sidelined

  "It wasn't a war at first, it was a revolution against the system," he says. "We were trying to take a stance against the system and that led us here."

  • Washington Post - Mapped: Russian airstrikes in Syria post-cease-fire
• Anti-ISIS Campaign
  U.S. Captures First ISIS Fighter. Now the Interrogation Begins.

  The U.S. is holding and interrogating an Iraqi man suspected of fighting with ISIS in a growing effort to gather more on-the-ground intelligence about the Islamist terrorist group, two defense officials told The Daily Beast.

  • AP - Terror Expert Describes Islamic State Tactics, Recruiting
• National Security
  Where the 2016 Candidates Stand on National Security

  The Council on Foreign Relations drew on speeches, debates, and campaign websites, as well as open source media to compile where the candidates stand on Syria, Guantanamo, NSA surveillance and more

• Iran Elections
  Iranian Elections: The Rise of the Pragmatists

  The conservatives are leading with 36 percent of the seats, followed by the alliance between pragmatists and reformists with 32 percent and independents with 32 percent of the 290-seat Parliament.

  • BBC - Iran: Who Holds Power?
  • Washington Post - How Iran’s elections marginalized radicals and consolidated a new political center
  • Al-Arabiya - Perspective: And the award goes to Hashemi Rafsanjani!
  • Columbia/SIPA - Reading Iran’s Elections: Implications for Change, the Future of the Iran Deal, and the Hardliner Risk
• Steel Production
  Saudi leads Arab countries’ steel production

  Saudi Arabia has topped Arab countries in the production of steel with a 5.6million tonne capacity in 2015, Al-Riyadh reported.

• Donald Trump
  Perspective: What a Trump Presidency Means for the Gulf

  Trump’s comments about the Gulf states have been less than reassuring.

  • FP - The World According to Trump, Super Tuesday's Big Winner
• Bin Laden Letters
  Osama Bin Laden Letters Warned Against The Pillars of ISIS’s Strategy

  Before his death in 2011, former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden warned his followers that any attempt to prematurely establish an Islamic state would fail, new documents released on Tuesday reveal.

  • Long War Journal - Osama Bin Laden's Files: Al Qaeda relocated operatives out of northern Pakistan
  • Reuters - New bin Laden documents show a suspicious, pressured al Qaeda
• Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
  U.S. Security Cooperation With Saudi Arabia

  Given the complex and dynamic security challenges facing the region, including countering violent extremism from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as well as other extremist groups, the United States will continue to work with Saudi Arabia to support counterterrorism efforts and a shared interest in regional stability.

• Saudi Women Entrepreneurs
  How Falling Oil Prices Helped Spark A Revolution Of “Accidental Entrepreneurs”

  Private businesses in Saudi with no ties to the government had started to boom, and women were starting to participate in what are called HBB, or home-based businesses, ones that are run from entrepreneurs' homes.

• LA Hugs
  Video: ‘I am Saudi Muslim, if you refuse Trump’s views, give me a hug’

  The Saudi Adel Tobi who is studying in Los Angeles in USA, posted a video on his page on YouTube showing himself standing in the middle of one of the main streets in a Saudi uniform and holding a sign that reads "I am a Saudi Muslim if you refuse Trump's recent views against Muslims, give me a hug."

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