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ho control much of the northern part of the country. Considering that it is a brief police action the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, told Al Jazeera, "it is a question of weeks." But like most of these mopping up actions, the French soon found out that the Islamist rebels were far better equipped

is only 1.4% in Canada, 2% in China, 3.9% in Russia, 2.6% in the UK, 1.3% in Germany and I% in Japan. In the world's top 15 military spenders, only Saudi Arabia's 8.7% of GDP is higher than in the US and the US military spending is larger than the combined military budgets of the other 14 countries with a popu

his successors. The verdict should also raise alarms about the fate of other prisoners, including several journalists for the pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera, whose trial is underway in Cairo, as well as 600 other defendants, whose mass trial is set to begin on Tuesday. The possibility that all could be

n, is inexplicable to the Saudis. This leads them to question whether the U.S. defines its interests in the region in a way that is compatible with Saudi Arabia's. EFTA00662921 None of this means that the Saudis will turn away from the United States; Saudi leaders know that only the U.S. can safeguard Saudi

Iraq. SISI, of course, is Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the new strongman/president of Egypt, whose regime debuted this week by shamefully sentencing three Al Jazeera journalists to prison terms on patently trumped-up charges — a great nation acting so small. ISIS and Sisi, argues Perlov, a researcher on Middle E

om the US until recently may have been predicated on another Iraq war — when the administration of George H.W. Bush demonstrating its commitment to Saudi Arabia's security in 1990 deployed 500,000 US troops to the kingdom to expel Saddam Hussein's forces from neighboring Kuwait. In the eyes of Saudis, that wa

ous," he needs to make sure the Arabs are part of, and don't lose from, any future bargain with Iran. Marwan Bishara is senior political analyst at Al Jazeera and the author of "The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Perils of the Arab Revolution." Asharq Al-Awsat American and Iranian DNA Ataollah Mohajera

me America's withdrawal of aid to the Egyptian military after the July coup. Now President Obama is pursuing a very public rapprochement with Iran, Saudi Arabia's archrival. The mounting disagreements between the two longtime allies is now in full public view. Last week, the head of Saudi intelligence warned

pr 2014 11:18:31 +0000 17 April, 2014 Article l . The New Yorker The U.S and Israel: What Now for the "Honest Broker"? John Cassidy Article 2. Al Jazeera The ineptness of geopolitics John Bell Article 3. The Washington Post The U.S. must stand behind its security obligat Michael Chertoff Article

ectacle of the secular government of the United Arab Emirates last year prosecuting dozens of Islamists as alleged members of a fifth column, while Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi government—far more theologically reactionary than the Brothers— declares the group a terrorist threat. The Brotherhood has become a pan- Ar

d with the prospect of Facebook revolutions, airdropping iPhones is not a democracy promotion strategy on the cheap. Others pointed to the role of Al Jazeera in focusing attention on the uprisings; its coverage of the revolution in Tunisia, it is argued, helped to "seed" the Arab Spring in other countrie

s. Deaths of rulers can change dynamics overnight virtually anywhere in the region, and Israel's defense policy remains an ever-present black swan. Saudi Arabia's own rumored pursuit of new nuclear-style ballistic missiles from China adds an additional layer of uncertainty about a nuclear arms race in the reg

e made by the career agents and analysts here at the FBI." Additional reporting on the story was provided by ABC News (11/25, Barr, Siegel, Murray), Al Jazeera (11/25, Rasheed), Axios (11/25, Solender), BBC (11/25, Saad), Bloomberg (11/25, Reilly, Birnbaum), CBS News (11/25, Yilek, Maguire), CNBC (11/25, M

ales, how Iran has shaped the broader regional landscape, and the Trump administration's approach to Saudi Arabia. The discussion will also examine Saudi Arabia's domestic transformation under Vision 2030, the kingdom's shifting global posture, and the opportunities and challenges ahead. EFTA01655575 Email