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Commentary | Dividing Saudi Society is Impossible – Mulhim
Editor’s Note: SUSRIS periodically shares perspectives from columnists in Saudi Arabia and around the Gulf. For your consideration here is a column by Abdulateef Al-Mulhim who writes regularly for Arab...
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Obama’s Plus Up in Iraq: Incrementalism is Not a Strategy – Cordesman
Editor’s Note: The Obama Administration announced a plus-up of 450 troops to the training mission in Iraq and opening a new base in Anbar Province, a region plagued with fighting against ISIS (Daesh)...
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Commentary | A Saudi Nuclear Weapon? – Obaid
Editor’s Note: The long-running negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear development program — and doubts an agreement will prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb — have given rise to...
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Kerry on Iran Negotiations
“…we want a good agreement, only a good agreement, and we’re not going to shave anywhere at the margins in order just to get an agreement. This is something that the world will analyze, experts...
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Events | Iran Nuclear Deal: View from the Region
Note: Provided as a service to our readers who may be interested in events like this. Contact the organizer directly for more information. The Iran Nuclear Deal: The View from the Region Wilson Center,...
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Special Report |“Emergency Forces” Mosque Bombing Kills 13
SPECIAL REPORT A bomb attack on a “special emergency forces” mosque in the southwest Saudi city of Abha, likely a suicide strike, killed at least 10 security officers and three workers today during...
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Battle for Yemen in New Phase – Obaid
Editor’s Note: The Saudi-led coalition that has been battling Houthi rebels and their allies in Yemen since airstrikes were launched in March has been on the offensive on the ground in recent weeks....
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Event | Prince Sultan bin Khalid Al-Faisal Talks Saudi Arabian Defense...
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Task Group Advances Work to Combat ISIL Finances
Editor’s Note: The Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (aka Daesh, ISIL, IS) held its first ministerial meeting last December. A month later a task force to combat...
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Breaking News | Deadly Bomb Attack at Najran Mosque
BREAKING NEWS A bomb attack at a Shia mosque in the southwest Saudi city of Najran has killed at least one with a dozen others injured according to the BBC. The report said Daesh (ISIS) claimed...
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Commentary | Don’t Take the Terrorists’ Bait | Mulhim
Editor’s Note: SUSRIS periodically shares perspectives from columnists in Saudi Arabia and around the Gulf. For your consideration here is a column by Abdulateef Al-Mulhim who writes regularly for Arab...
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Saudi Arabia Executes 47 Over Terrorism Offenses
Editor’s Note: Saudi Arabia carried out executions of 47 convicts being held for crimes ranging from militant attacks and violent protests back to the 2003 era Al Qaeda terrorist attacks in the...
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The Enduring Lessons of the Gulf War – Kettle
Editor’s Note: Twenty-five years ago this month Saudi Arabia and a coalition of 34 nations including the US and UK launched combat operations against Iraqi forces with the aim of liberating Kuwait from...
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