Middle East Experience

Qatar wanted to please the United States and help Gaza residents with aid money, but has found itself trapped in a standoff between Hamas and Israel.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Qatar sinks into Gaza quagmire

Etihad partners with Microsoft to create inhouse facility to train staff in AI
Source: ITP.net
Full Article: Etihad Airways opens inhouse AI Academy

Shin Bet sources admit that they have little means to tamp down the young extremist settlers known as hilltop youth, who carry out violent attacks against Palestinians in the hopes of sparking a conflagration.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Can the Shin Bet stop hilltop youths' march to Armageddon?

Japanese government will hack home and business equipment to prepare for Olympics
Source: ITP.net
Full Article: Japan to hack 200 million IoT devices

Iran accused France of being a destabilizing force in the region after its foreign minister threatened new sanctions against Tehran over its missile program. “The Islamic republic has always
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Iran accuses France of ‘destabilizing’ the region

Nissan’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn, in his first interview since his arrest in November, blamed fellow executives opposed to forging closer ties with the automaker’s French alliance
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Arrest due to plot within Nissan, says Ghosn in first interview

Coalition missile strikes have killed 42 people including 13 civilians in what remains of ISIS’s last holdout in eastern Syria, a war monitor said. The Syrian Democratic Forces, with backing
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Coalition strikes kill 42 in ISIS Syria holdout

Yehuda Biagda, 24, was shot and killed by a police officer earlier this month after Biagda rushed at him with a knife.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Ethiopian protesters close highway, chant: Violent cops belong in prison

Three major European countries - Germany, France and Spain - have come out on Saturday saying they are ready to recognize Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president if elections are not called
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Germany, France, Spain poised to recognize Venezuela’s Guaido

The U.S. intelligence officials told the Senate Intelligence Committee Iran was not developing nuclear weapons in violation of agreement, even though Tehran threatened to reverse some commitments.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Trump calls U.S. intelligence chiefs 'passive and naive' on Iran