ISIS has claimed responsibility for the shooting in a nightclub in Istanbul on New Year’s Eve, in which a gunman – who is still at large – killed 39 people, most of whom foreign nationals and many of them from the Middle East, but an analyst warns that this could just be a precursor to an ISIS end game to target Saudi oil facilities. According to Iran’s Fars news agency , Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm newspaper, has warned that Islamic State plans to attack Saudi oil facilities and strike at the interests of the countries that are members of the anti-ISIS coalition. Atwan notes that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has ordered attacks on oil facilities and interests of the countries fighting ISIS, and this order was directed at Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf Arab countries or Libya, again according to the Iranian […]