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Secretary of State John Kerry with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Sept. 23, 2013

NATOSource

Sep 30, 2013

US has ‘Serious Concerns’ about Turkey’s Choice of Chinese Missile System

By Reuters

The United States said on Saturday it had expressed serious concerns to Turkey over its decision to co-produce a long-range air and missile defense system with a Chinese firm under U.S. sanctions.

China Missile Defense
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Turkish Minister of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Feb. 17, 2012

NATOSource

Sep 30, 2013

NATO Allies Concerned About Chinese Missile Defense System in Turkey

By Burak Ege Bekdil, Defense News

A Turkish decision to commission a Chinese company to build Turkey’s first long-range air and missile defense shield presents any number of challenges to Turkey’s Western allies

China Missile Defense

MENASource

Sep 30, 2013

Top News: FJP Deputy Sets Conditions for Dialogue; Presidential Advisor to Meet with Former MB Members

By EgyptSource

In a video aired by Al Jazeera on Sunday, Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Vice President Essam al-Erian has called for dialogue on condition that those “who led the coup” admit their wrong doings and reinstate deposed President Mohamed Morsi.

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 30, 2013

Top News: Tunisia’s Governing Islamists to Step Down

By MENASource

Tunisia’s Islamist-led government agreed on Saturday to resign after talks with secular foes to form a caretaker administration and prepare for elections to safeguard the democratic transition in the country where the Arab Spring uprisings began.

MENASource

Sep 30, 2013

Islamic Law in the Libyan Constitution: Beyond “A” and “The”

By Duncan Pickard

The debate about the role of Islam in new constitutions in Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt has begun with the formulation of the role of Islamic sharia in lawmaking: should Islamic sharia be the source, the principal source, or a source among sources of legislation?

Libya

MENASource

Sep 30, 2013

The Rational Syrian Rebel

By Faysal Itani

An Islamist rebel coalition is emerging in Syria, deepening the irrelevance of the US-backed Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and further eroding US influence in the conflict.

Syria

New Atlanticist

Sep 30, 2013

Defense Strategy and the Turing Test

By Julian Lindley-French

Speaking on the European Union’s Common Security and Defense Policy is the strategy equivalent of talking paint dry. Europeans need a test—similar to Alan Turing’s for determining whether artificial intelligence can successfully mimic human thought and action or not—for the many EU, NATO, and national defense strategies which plaster the walls of Europe’s rickety and […]

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Sep 29, 2013

This Week in Egypt – September 29, 2013

By Amira Mikhail

Catch up on the latest out of Egypt every week, with analysis, news updates, photos, videos, and more.

North Africa
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, April 19, 2013

NATOSource

Sep 27, 2013

Rasmussen: ‘NATO Could Play a Coordinating Role’ in Syria

By Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor

[NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh] Rasmussen, whose five-year term ends next summer, sat down in New York with the Monitor to discuss Syria

International Organizations NATO
"The existing conventional arms control regime in Europe is in need of modernization"

NATOSource

Sep 27, 2013

Poland, Germany and Denmark Call for Progress in Conventional Arms Control in Europe

By Foreign Ministry of Poland

The foreign ministers of Poland, Germany and Denmark at a meeting today in New York called for renewed engagement in establishing a well-functioning and up to date conventional arms control system in Europe.

Europe & Eurasia Germany