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  • Assassination Plot
    Iran bomb attack conjures memories of plot to kill Saudi ambassador in D.C.

    Arbabsiar pleaded guilty to a charge of murder for hire and two counts of conspiracy in 2012. The next year, he was sentenced to the maximum 25 years in prison. Preet Bharara, then the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, linked Arbabsiar to Iran after the prison term was announced.

  • Turkey in the Region
    Turkish parliament passes Libya deployment bill, but troops unlikely for now

    Turkey’s parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill that allows troops to be deployed in Libya, in a move that paves the way for further military cooperation between Ankara and Tripoli but is unlikely to put boots on the ground immediately.

  • U.S. Middle East Policy
    750 soldiers with 82nd Airborne headed for CENTCOM, additional 4,000 troops expected to deploy as Iran tensions mount

    The deployment of additional forces adds to the nearly 14,000 additional American troops that have deployed to the U.S. Central Command area of operations over the last six months to confront Iranian malign behavior.

  • Troop Deployment
    US readies 4,000 troops for deployment to Middle East amid Baghdad unrest: report

    As many as 4,000 U.S. troops are reportedly on standby for possible deployment to Kuwait after demonstrators, including members of an Iranian-backed militia, breached the walls of the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad.

  • U.S.-China
    Top US diplomat Mike Pompeo to raise Uygur issue with Beijing’s allies on upcoming Central Asian tour

    During his visit to eastern Europe and central Asia from Friday through January 7, Pompeo will conduct meetings with representatives from a number of countries that have spoken out in support of Beijing’s actions in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, where hundreds of thousands of Uygurs and other largely Muslim minority groups are reported to have been sent to mass detention facilities.

  • Exxon Mobil
    Exxon Mobil secures large exploration position offshore Egypt

    Exxon Mobil received leases to explore 1.7 million acres offshore of Egypt, including 1.2 million acres in the North Marakia offshore block that’s about five miles offshore of Egypt’s northern coast in the Herodotus basin. The remaining 543,000 acres are in the North East El Amriya offshore block in the Nile Delta.

  • Turkey in the Region
    Turkey speeds up Libya troop deployment deal to prevent slide into ‘chaos’

    Last week, President Tayyip Erdogan announced his government’s decision to seek a parliamentary consent to send troops to Libya to defend the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli against General Khalifa Haftar forces which receives military support from Russia, Egypt and United Arab Emirates.

  • Security
    Saudi student in alleged ‘kill list’ plot ordered held

    A Saudi Arabian student who prosecutors say illegally obtained a gun in the U.S. and told someone he wanted to kill a professor and others was ordered Tuesday held until his trial on a federal gun charge. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laura Fashing ruled Tuesday that Hassan Alqahtani posed a danger and should be kept in federal custody after she heard allegations of domestic violence and threats reportedly made to others.

  • Jamal Khashoggi
    U.S. bars former Saudi diplomat in Turkey from entering U.S. over Khashoggi murder

    The United States on Tuesday barred from entering the country Mohammed al Otaibi, who served as the Saudi consul general in Istanbul when Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in his consulate in 2018, the State Department said.

  • Labor
    Unemployment high on list of Arab youth’s major concerns

    In the Arab world, 65 percent of the population are under the age of 30. According to an Arab News — Arab Strategy Forum research study conducted by YouGov, 55 percent of this demographic group believe corruption is the main problem in their country, followed by unemployment (46 percent) and lack of trust in government (30 percent) .