U.S. reassesses NDN after Pak border crisis; Turkey's opposition looks to new leadership; Israel warms to Greece; UAE hedges on Hormuz

Russian missiles to Syria put Israel deal at risk; Gulf anxiety over Iran on the rise; Saudi starts new re-education effort; Iraqi politics and the Iran factor

Bahrain reasserts control over mosques; Iraqi officials want longer U.S. presence; Referendum amends Turkey's constitution, boosts AKP; Shi'ite-Sunni militants join hands in Iraq

AQAP warns of Israel-Iranian war; AKP bests Turkey's generals again; Egypt gets nuclear ball rolling; Yemen cracks down on al Qaeda; Hamas targets settlers ahead of peace talks

Israel and Lebanon clash at the border; Arming the Saudis; Terror title shifts to South Asia; IMU leader Yuldashev dead

Iron Dome ready in November; Saudi legal reform takes a step forward; Iran's hand in Iraq highlighted by U.S. general; France "at war" with AQIM; Turkey gives boost to Azeri enclave

Iraq seeks info on Iran nuke sites; Turkey beats back PKK, with U.S. help; AQAP tries its hand at western media, targets Yemen gov.; Tajikistan's lonely airbase

How stable is Saudi Arabia? Not very, according to at least one member of the Kingdom's ruling class. Last month Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, a prominent dissident now in exile in Cairo, issued an open letter to his fellow royals, urging them to abandon their desert fiefdom for greener pastures. According to the prince, the current social compact between the House of Saud and its subjects had become untenable, with the government no longer able to "impose" its writ on the people and growing grassroots discontent at the royals "interfering in people's private life and restricting their liberties." His advice? That King Abdullah and his coterie flee the Kingdom before they are overthrown--and before their opponents "cut off our heads in streets."

A week from today, a federal judge in San Diego has an opportunity to right a grievous wrong - to reverse last year's decision by the Department of Homeland Security to deny political asylum to a young Palestinian man who, over the course of a decade, prevented the deaths of potentially thousands of innocent people in Israel and the territories.

His name is Mosab Hassan Yousef and his life story, as recounted in his autobiographical Son of Hamas, reads like the best in historical fiction - though his extraordinary tale is true, confirmed by Israeli intelligence.

The makings of a Gulf strategic umbrella; Secret arms depots in Syria; AQI, on its heels; A bond between the Brotherhood and ElBaradei; Saudi Militants refuse rehabilitation