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John Kerry in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Coordinate with Allies in Upcoming Battle Against the Islamic State
- September 11,2014
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- SUSTG Team
Secretary of State John Kerry is in Jeddah today for talks with the Saudi Arabian government and other allies as the U.S. seeks a broad, cooperative effort in defeating the Islamic State. Saudi Arabia has agreed to provide bases for the training of moderate Syrian rebels who are battling the Sunni militants and the Assad […]
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Nitaqat Three Years On: A Summer 2014 Report Card
- September 11,2014
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- Nathan Field
Four years into the Arab Spring, Saudi Arabia has been an oasis of relative calm and stability in an otherwise tumultuous Middle East region. This is partially because the perceived social, economic and political dysfunction resulting from Arab Spring reform movements has had a sobering effect on Saudi perceptions. In fact, many Saudis consider the […]
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At Dinner with Foreign Policy Experts, Obama Previews Plans to Escalate Attacks on IS Without Congressional Approval
- September 9,2014
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- Lucien Zeigler
When President Obama announced that he would not strike Syria without Congressional approval in 2013 following a chemical attack by Syria’s President Assad, Gulf allies of the U.S. determined to see Assad overthrown were put off at the unwillingness of a U.S. President to follow through on a previously set “red line.” “While I believe […]
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Higher Education in Saudi Arabia: ‘The Easiest Part is the Buildings, the Hardest Part is What is Behind the Walls’
- September 9,2014
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- SUSTG Team
The 150,000 Saudi students studying overseas and 83,000 in the United States are just one part of Saudi Arabia’s higher education plans, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James B. Smith said in a recent FocusKSA video with SUSRIS Editor-in-Chief Patrick Ryan. Saudi Arabia has invested big in infrastructure for higher education, Smith said, and […]
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Social Media’s Arab Future
- September 9,2014
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- Richard Wilson
One could argue that of all the repercussions from the Arab Spring in 2011 none will be more consequential than the kickstart of a period of phenomenal growth of social media in the Arab World. The pace is astonishing. Apart from the numbers, what does it actually mean if Saudi Arabia has the highest per-capita […]
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President Obama, Biden, Kerry Meet with Washington’s Foreign Policy Elite for Strategic Dinner
- September 9,2014
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- Lucien Zeigler
U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden hosted a dinner meeting at the White House with several of Washington’s top foreign policy experts on Monday, according to reports. The timing of the meeting yesterday with bipartisan guests “seemed more for Mr. Obama to give his guests, several of whom are fixtures on television […]
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Saudi Arabia Fast-Tracks Nuclear Power to Meet Soaring Domestic Demand
- September 9,2014
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- SUSTG Team
In an excellent round-up of the shifting energy sector in Saudi Arabia, James Conca in Forbes discusses Saudi Arabia’s embrace of nuclear and renewable energy sources to meet demand – an important initiative for the increasingly energy-hungry Saudi society. “Saudi Arabia burns almost a billion barrels of oil a year to produce electricity, this change […]
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Data Compiled by Bloomberg Finds Saudi Oil Sales to U.S. Imperiled by American Shale Boom
- September 4,2014
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- SUSTG Team
Dan Murtaugh and Lynn Doan of Bloomberg report that after years of keeping the price of crude sold to the U.S. low enough to maintain market share, the Kingdom “is losing ground as the shale boom leaves U.S. refiners with ample supplies of inexpensive domestic oil.” Oil imports to the United States have fallen as […]
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C3 US-Arab Business Summit Set for October 6, 2014 in New York City
- September 4,2014
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- SUSTG Team
Since 2012, C3 Summit, in collaboration with the US State Department, US Chamber of Commerce and the US Department of Commerce, has been producing US-Arab Summits focusing on healthcare, commerce and economic development between the Arab region and North America. Given the continuing growth and importance of the business sector to both regions, C3 has developed the US-Arab […]
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Brookings’ Gold: Interactive Data on Foreign Students In U.S. Higher Education
- September 2,2014
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- Richard Wilson
The Brookings Institution has just published a superb report, The Geography of Foreign Students in U.S. Higher Education: Origins and Destinations, which mines foreign student data from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to create an extraordinarily informative overview of the foreign student population in the United States. The report covers the period from 2001-2012 when […]
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Afghans mourn famed commander and worry about Taliban fight without U.S. support
Col. Sohrab Azimi, a field commander in Afghan special forces that often rescue troops and retake outposts from Taliban attacks, symbolized the country's best hope to fend off an insurgent takeover as U.S. troops began to withdraw from the fight. Azimi, 31, and his squad of 22 men were massacred Wednesday by Taliban forces while defending a base in northern Faryab province and waiting for reinforcements.
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U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Lenderking’s Travel to Saudi Arabia
U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking will travel to Saudi Arabia on June 15-17 where he will meet with senior officials from the Governments of the Republic of Yemen and Saudi Arabia, as well as UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths. Throughout the trip, Special Envoy Lenderking will discuss the latest efforts to achieve a comprehensive, nationwide ceasefire, which is the only way to bring Yemenis the relief they so urgently need.
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Iran regains U.N. vote after U.S. enables U.N. payment
Iran lost its vote in the 193-member General Assembly in January because it was more than two years in arrears. It owed a total of more than $65 million, but paid the minimum amount needed to regain its vote. "Iran has paid the minimum amount due," U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said on Friday, confirming Iran could vote again.
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U.S. warns Venezuela, Cuba to turn away Iranian ships believed to be carrying arms
The warnings — some public and some private, according to three people briefed on the situation — come as the vessels have traveled a significant distance across the Atlantic Ocean. A senior Biden administration official said the ships are thought to be carrying weapons to fulfill a deal that Iran and Venezuela made a year ago, noting that it was during the administration of former President Donald Trump.
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U.S. drops sanctions on former Iranian officials, step called routine
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the U.S. official said that the moves by the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) were unrelated to efforts to revive Iranian and U.S. compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
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U.S. sanctions network charged with funding Yemen’s Houthis
The United States on Thursday announced sanctions on what it called members of a smuggling network that generates tens millions of dollars for Yemen's Houthis, pressuring the Iran-aligned movement to accept a ceasefire and peace talks.
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U.S. says Iran nuclear talks to resume over the weekend
"I think there's been a lot of progress made, but, out of my own experience, until the last detail is nailed down, and I mean nailed down, we will not know if we have an agreement," Sherman, one of the key U.S. negotiators for the original deal, said.
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Rockets hit near U.S. forces and contractors in Iraq in separate attacks – officials
Rockets hit near U.S. forces and contractors in Iraq on Wednesday, including an air base north of Baghdad and a military base at Baghdad International Airport, the Iraqi army and security officials said. The army reported at least three rockets hit Balad air base, where U.S. contractors are based.
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Scorching heat breaks records in U.S., Middle East and Asia
At the same time, an unusually severe early season heat wave has enveloped the Middle East and South Asia, prompting temperatures to spike above the 50°C (122°F) mark in at least five countries: Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iran and Pakistan.
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Gen. Scott Miller spent years at war in Afghanistan. Now he commands the U.S. withdrawal.
During his first two years in command in America’s longest war, Army Gen. Austin “Scott” Miller oversaw a partial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that came in waves under President Donald Trump. Now he was meeting with the new president for the first time, via video feed from the White House. Miller and other senior military officers had urged Trump to leave a couple thousand U.S. troops in Afghanistan to counter threats posed by terrorist groups, and they were recommending roughly the same to President Biden. While Biden and Trump disagreed on many issues, both had vowed to end U.S. involvement in a conflict that Pentagon officials said they could not win on the battlefield.
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