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New Atlanticist

New Atlanticist is the Atlantic Council’s public policy blog. It seeks to provide expert analysis, accessible to a broad readership, on the most pressing issues facing the transatlantic community.

Inflection Points

A weekly column by Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe, Inflection Points focuses on the global challenges facing the United States and how to best address them.

UkraineAlert

UkraineAlert is a comprehensive online publication that provides regular news and analysis on developments in Ukraine’s politics, economy, civil society, and culture, with commentary drawn from a wide-array of thought-leaders, politicians, experts, and activists from Ukraine and the global community.

MENASource

The MENASource blog follows the transitions in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Syria, as well as other political and economic changes throughout the region. MENASource provides a platform for diverse perspectives from the US, Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa on major issues that are at stake in the post-Arab Spring era.

SyriaSource

SyriaSource, a project of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, amplifies Syrian voices, alongside Atlantic Council researchers and fellows, to showcase issues most pertinent to Syrians. The blog features news and analysis directly from Syrian sources as well as international experts.

IranSource

IranSource provides a holistic look at Iran’s internal dynamics, global and regional policies, and posture through unique analysis of current events and long-term, strategic issues related to Iran.

EnergySource

EnergySource provides analysis and insight on key energy issues, making sense of key energy trends and their implications for geopolitics, geoeconomics, policy, and markets.

AfricaSource

AfricaSource provides in-depth analysis and incisive commentary by the Africa Center’s experts on the people and events shaping the present and future of the world’s most dynamic regions.

Econographics

Econographics help visualize and contextualize the most important trends and developments in the global economy.

TURKEYSource

TURKEYSource provides analysis and insight on Turkey and related developments with coverage from Turkish, regional, and international experts. This blog offers timely news and commentary on key issues related to transatlantic relations, energy, business, migration, and key players.

SouthAsiaSource

SouthAsiaSource is the Atlantic Council’s premier publication for South Asian affairs, covering areas such as economics and trade, governance, education, climate and environmental issues, politics and diplomacy, migration, security, and other areas.

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MENASource

Oct 10, 2014

Top News: ISIS Captures Kurdish Headquarters in Kobani

By MENASource

ISIS militants overran the headquarters of Kurdish forces defending the battleground Syrian border town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab in Arabic) on Friday. Fierce fighting had raged for the complex throughout the morning after ISIS militants captured part of it used by the Kurds’ internal security force on Thursday.

MENASource

Oct 10, 2014

Top News: Egypt’s Universities Issue More Security Regulations Ahead of New Semester

By EgyptSource

University administrations are tightening their grip on student communities with an onslaught of new security measures as they prepare for the new academic year on October 11.

MENASource

Oct 10, 2014

Syria: A Problem In Search of a Strategy

By Frederic C. Hof

As matters now stand, the Obama administration sees the Syrian side of the anti-Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS, or the Islamic State) military campaign in the context of a headquarters/safe-haven for an enemy whose main target is Iraq.

Syria

MENASource

Oct 10, 2014

Is Egypt Hurting or Helping Libya?

By EgyptSource

As Egypt simultaneously rejects foreign intervention in Libya’s internal affairs and inches ever closer into a partnership of assistance with its neighbor to the west, announcing its plans to train Libyan forces to fight terrorism. Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni’s recent visit to Cairo has served to further cement this partnership between an anti-Islamist Egyptian […]

Libya North Africa

MENASource

Oct 10, 2014

EconSource: Egypt Discusses Economic Reforms with IMF

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries. 

UkraineAlert

Oct 10, 2014

General Wesley Clark: America’s Global Strategy Begins With Ukraine

By James Rupert

Former NATO Commander Says Every US Strategic Interest Is Tied to Russia-Ukraine Crisis America’s five most broadly dangerous 21st-century challenges are disparate, says former presidential candidate and retired senior general Wesley Clark. They stretch from an aggressive China and frail cyber-security to climatic disruptions, unstable financial systems, and terrorism rooted in the Islamic world. All […]

Eastern Europe NATO

Trade in Action

Oct 9, 2014

TTIP’s Strategic Impact Comes into Focus

By Global Business & Economics Program

More than Just a Trade AgreementI recently wrote a piece for US News and World Report arguing that peace and economic prosperity are inextricably linked. TTIP cannot be viewed as just another trade agreement. In fact, given all of the uncertainty from Russia and Ukraine to Iraq and Syria to Ebola, TTIP has only gained […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

New Atlanticist

Oct 9, 2014

Nigeria’s Finance Minister: African Economy is ‘Nearly a Hot Prospect’

By New Atlanticist

Alongside its urgent focus on West Africa’s outbreak of the Ebola virus, the world should stop to notice a bigger, more basic African fact—the explosive growth of its economy and middle class—says one of the continent’s top economists. Two decades after Africa earned a reputation as the world’s economic basket case, accelerating growth has nearly […]

Africa Economy & Business

MENASource

Oct 9, 2014

Egypt and Libya: A Fatal Embrace?

By Karim Mezran

The stalemate emerging from the armed political conflict in Libya today suggests that neither the Islamist-backed Operation Dawn nor the more secular Operation Dignity movements have the capacity to dominate the other.

Libya North Africa

MENASource

Oct 9, 2014

Top News: ISIS Captures One-Third of Kobani

By MENASource

ISIS fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab in Arabic), activists said Thursday, as US-led air strikes—which the United States admits are insufficient without ground support—failed to halt their advance and Turkish forces nearby looked on without intervening.

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