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Daily Briefing US to arm Syrian Kurds, rebel groups fighting IS LAURA ROZEN for Al-Monitor The Pentagon will pause its beleaguered Syria train and equip program to instead provide arms and air support to Syrian Kurdish and Arab rebel groups already fighting the Islamic State. Descendants of Iraqi Jews preserve memories  SHLOMI ELDAR FOR AL-MONITOR Could climate change send Egypt 'sinking into the sea'?  AYAH AMAN FOR AL-MONITOR Egyptians face religious extremism with song  GEORGE MIKHAIL FOR AL-MONITOR Will government reshuffle stamp out corruption in Egypt?  AHMED FOUAD FOR AL-MONITOR Iranian general killed in Syria came back for special operation  ARASH KARAMI FOR AL-MONITOR What could a “harsh” Iranian reaction to Riyadh constitute?  ALI OMIDI FOR AL-MONITOR Could Saudi-Iraqi ties be key to defeating Islamic State?  MUSTAFA AL-KADHIMI FOR AL-MONITOR Israel must not impose views on US Jewish community  URI SAVIR FOR AL-MONITOR Bibi looks to score political points from current wave of terror  MAZAL MUALEM FOR AL-MONITOR Hamas turns blind eye to Fatah’s military activities in Gaza  RASHA ABOU JALAL FOR AL-MONITOR Russia’s Syria strikes hold both strategic, symbolic importance  MONA ALAMI FOR AL-MONITOR Syria's increasingly congested skies  METIN GURCAN FOR AL-MONITOR Grew up Kurdish, forced to be Turkish, now called Armenian  PINAR TREMBLAY FOR AL-MONITOR Russian market huge disappointment for Turkey  MEHMET CETINGULEC FOR AL-MONITOR VIEW SLIDESHOW> Libyan foreign minister speaks out  TRANSLATED FROM AL-HAYAT (PAN ARAB) Egypt Gulf Iran Iraq Israel Lebanon Palestine Syria Turkey Congress Russia / MidEa