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• Anti-ISIS Campaign
  The war against the Islamic State hits hurdles just as the U.S. military gears up

  After months of un­expectedly swift advances, the U.S.-led war against the Islamic State is running into hurdles on and off the battlefield that call into question whether the pace of recent gains can be sustained.

  • AP - US struggles to convince Iraqis it doesn't support Islamic State
• Iran
  Iran says tested mid-range ballistic missile two weeks ago: Tasnim agency

  Iran successfully tested a precision-guided medium-range ballistic missile two weeks ago, a military official said on Monday, as Tehran continues to bolster what it insists is a purely defensive arsenal.

• AQAP
  U.S. forces now on the ground supporting combat operations in Yemen, Pentagon says

  The Pentagon has placed a small number of U.S. advisors on the ground in Yemen to support Arab forces battling al-Qaeda, military officials said on Friday, signaling a new American role in that country’s multi-sided civil war.

  • Saudi Gazette - US sends troops to Yemen, steps up anti-Qaeda strikes
• F-35 Production
  F-35 Production Set to Quadruple As Massive Factory Retools

  As green-skinned, half-assembled F-35 Joint Strike Fighters take shape, this massive factory that once cranked out thousands of World War II bombers is preparing to get real busy again.

• Extremism
  Saudi soldier killed in gunbattle with militants: SPA

  Two assailants opened fire on a police station before retreating to the mountain village of Thaqeef where the soldier, named as private Saeed al-Harithy, was killed in an exchange of fire, SPA reported.

• Lebanon
  Lebanon Holds Local Elections Under Tight Security

  Thousands of Lebanese are headed to the polls under tight security for municipal elections in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley.

• War in Yemen
  Yemen peace talks struggle as air strikes shake truce

  Yemen's Houthi movement accused a Saudi-led coalition of launching air strikes that killed seven people on Sunday, shaking a truce that has largely held through more than two weeks of U.N.-backed peace talks in Kuwait.

  • AP - Yemeni officials say forces evicting northerners from Aden
• Saudi Binladin
  ‘10,000 Binladin workers will get salaries by month-end’

  After massive layoffs and the protests that followed, the Saudi Binladin Group, will pay delayed salaries to 10,000 workers. According to Saudi Gazette, Abdullah Al Olayan, director of the branch of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development in Makkah, said:

• Saudi Oil Policy
  Commentary: Three key challenges for successors of the Ali Al Naimi oil era

  The next generation has to master three key challenges: managing through an age of austerity; internationalising the national oil companies; and opening up the industry.

• Saudi Electricity Company
  Plan to breakup Saudi Electricity being reviewed by authorities

  Saudi Arabia is reviewing its plan to break up Saudi Electricity Co (SEC) into four parts as part of a drive to further privatise the utility, according to sources aware of the matter.

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