MUST-READS

• Saudi Scholarship Program
  Will U.S. colleges and universities see decline in Saudi-funded students?

  Here's what is clear. The number of Saudis coming to intensive English programs, a first indicator of changes in enrollment patterns, is declining.

• Arab Media
  Perspective: Israel’s disappearance from Arab media scene

  Instead of reading about Israel, Arabs want to discuss ways to promote better education, improved health-care facilities, social equality and better infrastructure.

• War in Yemen
  Yemeni rebels pose a rising threat in southern Saudi Arabia

  Najran residents try to go about life normally, but the scars left by the Yemeni attacks reflect how brutal the fighting has become.

  • Al-Monitor - Death, starvation haunt southern Yemen
  • Washington Post - Yemen officials: UAE troops pull out, Aden airport is shut
  • Bloomberg - Yemen Accuses Hezbollah of Helping Houthis in Saudi Border War
• Libya
  IS Briefly Takes Center of Libyan City, Beheads 12

  Sabratha has become the latest Libyan power center for the local IS affiliate. Last week, U.S. airstrikes killed dozens of suspected militants in the city along with two Serbian hostages kidnapped last year.

• Anti-ISIS Campaign
  US says Islamic State foreign fighter ranks drop to 25,000

  A top Obama administration official says the Islamic State group's ranks of foreign fighters have dropped to about 25,000 from a peak of 35,000.

• Syria
  John Kerry says partition of Syria could be part of ‘plan B’ if peace talks fail

  John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has said he will move towards a plan B that could involve a partition of Syria if a planned ceasefire due to start in the next few days does not materialise, or if a genuine shift to a transitional government does not take place in the coming months.

  • Washington Post - This highly advanced U.S.-made anti-tank missile could now be on Syria’s frontlines
• Kuwait
  25 years later, Gulf War stills shapes tiny, oil-rich Kuwait

  Twenty-five years later, the Iraqi occupation and its aftermath still shapes life in this tiny emirate at the tip of the Persian Gulf, now challenged by power struggles, a failure to diversify its oil-dependent economy and the growing disillusionment of its youth in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings.

• Guantanamo
  Obama announces plan for closing Guantanamo Bay prison

  President Barack Obama announced his official proposal to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay on Tuesday morning, leading off with a vigorous condemnation of the facility's effect on U.S. national security.

  • Washington Post - There are fewer than 100 prisoners still at Guantanamo Bay. Where did the rest go?
  • Defense One - Obama’s Gitmo Closure Plan: What’s New and Where the Problems Are
• Qatar: Al-Udeid
  Al-Udeid: The good, the bad, and the very ugly

  "This is a permanent base now, and some people still only view it as temporary."

• Saudi-Nigeria
  Nigeria and Saudi Arabia Pledge to Cooperate on Oil, Terrorism

  Buhari met with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz on Tuesday during a visit to the Gulf, in which he will also visit Qatar, a fellow OPEC member. The two leaders committed to stabilizing the market and raising the price of oil, which has fallen from highs of $115 per barrel for Brent crude in summer 2014 to $32 in February 2016.

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