MUST-READS

• Turkey
  Turkey and Russia agree to cement ties

  Turkey and Russia have reached a clear consensus on normalising ties, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin said in a press conference following a meeting between the two.

• Al-Qaeda
  What’s in a Name? The Rebranding of the Nusra Front

  What does it mean? Less than meets the eye, but, like any desert mirage, it tells us something about the local atmosphere.

• Kuwait
  Kuwait announces deficit for first time in 16 years

  It was the first shortfall since the fiscal year to March 1999. Gulf states including Kuwait were hoping oil prices would stabilise in 2016.

• Islamic State: Tactics
  What Quetta Bombing Reveals About Islamic State and Pakistani Taliban

  Both Islamic State (ISIS) and the Taliban faction Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JA) have claimed responsibility for Monday’s bombing, which targeted protestors that had gathered in the local hospital to demonstrate against Balochistan Bar Association President Bilal Anwar Kasi’s killing.

  • Brookings - How we all reinforce a narrative of Islam versus the West
• Anti-ISIS Campaign
  2 years of anti-IS airstrikes have redrawn the Iraqi map

  Two years ago, the U.S.-led coalition dropped the first airstrikes on the Islamic State group, ushering in a deeper phase of intervention that dramatically changed the fight against the militant group in Iraq. Since then more than 9,400 coalition airstrikes have allowed Iraqi forces to slowly claw back cities, towns, supply lines and infrastructure.

  • AP - Iraq receives a new batch of F-16 fighter jets from US
• Brexit
  Brexit will hardly hit North America, Middle East or CIS states: survey

  Britain's vote to leave the European Union will hurt the economies of Britain and EU member states, especially Ireland, but will hardly affect North America, the Middle East or the Russia-led Commonwealth of Independent States, a survey showed.

• MENA Entrepreneurs
  What’s Holding Back Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa?

  Entrepreneurs can create wealth, enable economic regeneration through innovation, create jobs, and often go on to become philanthropists.

• Saudi Aramco IPO
  Questions loom as investors anticipate Saudi Aramco IPO

  The state-owned company said earlier this year that it has begun studying “various options to allow broad public participation in its equity” in either the company as a whole or a bundle of its downstream subsidiaries.

• Saudi Sandfall
  Stunning sandfall captured in the desert in Saudi Arabia

  Video of a sandfall in the Saudi desert.

• U.S.-Saudi Relations
  CIA Director: ‘We Have a Very Strong Relationship With Saudi Arabia’

  CIA Director John Brennan says that some people may seize upon uncorroborated information that was in the classified 28 pages from the Congressional 9/11 report.

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