MUST-READS

• Oman Projects
  Time to catch up to its neighbours: $145 billion worth of projects underway in Oman

  Oman’s projects market is set to receive a massive boost as the Sultanate ramps up its investment in turnkey projects over the next few years with 2015 witnessing an influx of up to $$26 billion in capital expenditure and pipeline opportunities including the latest Duqm developments valued at $12.5 billion and fisheries harbors valued at $13.6 billion respectively.

• Turkey and the UN
  UN Votes Against Turkey

  The vote not only denies Turkey one of the most prestigious and powerful positions in the entire international system — it's also a sign of how frustrated much of the world is with Ankara's trajectory, and how ineffective Iraq and Syria's northern neighbor now is at stating its case.

• US-Saudi
  Analysis: Saudi Arabia faces complex regional challenges

  Troubles abound for the Kingdom, but its strategic alliance with the US, however contradictory, has been affirmed by Islamic State's expansion, even as Saudi Arabia's regional rival Iran is seen by the US as equally indispensable.

• Oil and World Politics
  Friedman: A Pump War?

  Is it just my imagination or is there a global oil war underway pitting the United States and Saudi Arabia on one side against Russia and Iran on the other?

• Islamic State
  US Ramps Up Airstrikes on IS in Kobani

  U.S. warplanes have ramped up the number of airstrikes against ISIS fighters in the besieged city of Kobani, launching 21 airstrikes since Monday, officials said today.

• Iraq
  The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

  The Pentagon kept silent as munitions left over from Saddam Hussein’s war with Iran found new targets from 2004 to 2011: American and Iraqi troops.

• Society
  Saudi mulls hefty punishment for sexual harassment

  Arab News reports that Saudi Arabia is considering hefty fines and jail sentences of up to five years for sexual harassment. Proposals to tighten punishment for unwanted sexual advances follow a surge in the harassment of women at workplaces, streets and shopping malls.

• Economy
  Turkey lowers economic targets

  Efforts to rein in inflation have proven a huge disappointment. Accordingly, the year-end estimate was raised to 9.4% from the earlier 5.3% projection, a level Turkey could now hope to achieve only in 2016, if everything goes as planned.

• ISIS Foreign Fighters
  German, Saudi, and Turkish Islamic State fighters launch complex suicide attack

  The Islamic State has claimed a deadly, complex suicide attack in a town north of Baqubah in Iraq's Diyala province that killed at least 25 people. The suicide attack in Diyala took place today in the town of Qara Qubah, and targeted a government complex. Reuters reported that the attack was executed using three car bombs driven by suicide bombers, and 25 people, including civilians and troops, were killed and more than 60 were wounded.

  • BBC News - Police chief of Iraq's Anbar province killed by bomb
• Islam Debate
  Opinion: Let’s be honest, Islam has a problem right now

  I know the arguments against speaking of Islam as violent and reactionary. It has a following of 1.6 billion people. Places such as Indonesia and India have hundreds of millions of Muslims who don’t fit these caricatures. That’s why Maher and Harris are guilty of gross generalizations. But let’s be honest. Islam has a problem today. The places that have trouble accommodating themselves to the modern world are disproportionately Muslim.

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