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  • Saudi-Sweden
    United Arab Emirates recalls ambassador to Sweden after Saudi spat

    The United Arab Emirates has recalled its envoy to Sweden a week after Saudi Arabia did the same. The move came after the Swedish foreign minister denounced Saudi Arabia's flogging of a rights activist.

  • Saudi-Sweden
    Sweden May Lose Gulf Allies Over Saudi Spat

    Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven's socialist-led government has come under a torrent of criticism from local political and corporate quarters after his administration decided not to negotiate a fresh five-year defense-industrial trade agreement with Saudi Arabia.

  • Climate Change: Syria
    Study: Climate change helped spark Syrian civil war.

    We know the basic story in Syria by now: From 2006-2010, an unprecedented drought forced the country from a groundwater-intensive breadbasket of the region to a net food importer. Farmers abandoned their homes—school enrollment in some areas plummeted 80 percent—and flooded Syria’s cities, which were already struggling to sustain an influx of more than 1 million refugees from the conflict in neighboring Iraq. The Syrian government largely ignored these warning signs, helping sow discontent that ultimately spawned violent protests. The link from drought to war was prominently featured in a Showtime documentary last year. A preventable drought-triggered humanitarian crisis sparked the 2011 civil war, and eventually, ISIS.  

  • Cybersecurity
    Cyberspace Conflict Growing More Destructive, NSA’s Chief Says

    “I liken our historical moment to the situation that confronted the U.S. early in the Cold War, when it became obvious that the Soviet Union and others could build hydrogen bombs and the superpower competition showed worrying signs of instability,” Rogers said in his testimony.

  • Fear of the Islamic State spawns a renegade Afghan militia

    The Margh militia is the latest of the many irregular armed groups brazenly forming across the nation, seldom challenged by authorities even as President Ashraf Ghani has vowed to disband them. With most U.S. and NATO forces gone and Afghanistan’s security forces struggling to fill the void, such renegade militias pose a major obstacle to Ghani’s promise of creating a new Afghanistan where the rule of law is respected.

  • Extremism
    Kingdom sparing no effort in fight against extremism, terrorism: Saudi King

    King Salman also addressed how acts committed by global terror groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda affiliate the Al-Nusra Front were affecting relations between Muslims and other peoples from across the globe. He said such groups had “given an excuse to those already against Islam and who seek to harm it    to vilify our upright and rightly guided faith whose followers number 1.5 billion people around the world and who are now associated with this mindless faction which has no relation to Islam in any way.”

  • Kuwait
    Kuwait pulls licence of company that publishes critical newspaper

    Kuwait's trade minister has canceled the business license of the company that publishes a newspaper known for being critical of the government, citing violations of corporate regulations, the newspaper reported on Tuesday.

  • Guantanamo
    GOP senators want greater transparency on Gitmo transfers

    Republican senators on Thursday criticized the Obama administration for releasing five Yemeni detainees from Guantánamo Bay to Oman and Estonia, and called for more transparency.

  • Press
    Iran summons newspaper over Saudi king death headline

    Vatan-e-Emrooz, a conservative daily, has been summoned over a front page story on January 6 headlined with a Persian expression often interpreted as "may I hear the news of his death".

  • U.S. - Pakistan
    Kashmir shelling, spat over Pakistan aid mar run-up to Kerry trip

    Reports of a $500-million Washington aid package to Pakistan and a period of intense border shelling in Kashmir have overshadowed the run-up to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's expected visit to South Asia in the next few days.Kerry is due to attend an investment summit promoted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the weekend, and media reports say he will then travel to Islamabad.