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Sep 3, 2015

Top News: New ISIS in Sinai Video Documents Use of Advanced Weaponry

By EgyptSource

A new video released by Sinai State, the peninsula’s Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) affiliated militant group, allegedly documents a number of sophisticated operations on Egyptian army targets and appears to show the group’s capacity to move with alarming freedom through areas of North Sinai.

MENASource

Sep 3, 2015

EconSource: S&P Says Saudi Banks Can Fund Up to $100 Billion of State Debt

By EconSource

Saudi Arabia’s banks have enough assets to absorb $75 billion to $100 billion of government securities as the Kingdom begins selling bonds for the first time in seven year, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) said.

MENASource

Sep 2, 2015

Top News: Multiple ISIS Suicide Attacks Kill Twelve Iraqi Soldiers and Militiamen

By MENASource

A series of ISIS suicide attacks outside a town in Iraq’s western Anbar province Tuesday killed twelve soldiers and allied Sunni militiamen, military and hospital officials said. They said the attack began when ISIS militants shelled army and militia positions outside the town of Haditha with mortars.

MENASource

Sep 2, 2015

Top News: Egypt’s Sisi Discusses Cooperation, Economic Ties With Chinese Counterpart

By EgyptSource

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met in Beijing on Wednesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss furthering economic and political cooperation between the two countries, Egypt’s news agency MENA reported.

MENASource

Sep 2, 2015

EconSource: Egypt to Keep Eni’s Natural Gas Find to Itself

By EconSource

Egypt plans to keep all the natural gas produced at a giant field that Italy’s Eni found off its Mediterranean coast to itself, heightening competition among gas producers in the Middle East and Africa.

MENASource

Sep 1, 2015

Misunderstanding Egypt’s Ultras

By Ziad A. Akl

Egypt’s Ultras, organized groups of football fans, shot to infamy with the 2011 uprising. Despite an active presence in the streets dating back several years, 2011 marked a new introduction of the Ultras to the Egyptian public.

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 1, 2015

Top News: 1,250 Forced Disappearances since Beginning of Year Says NGO

By EgyptSource

Following months of cases circulating on social media and press, a local Egyptian NGO claims to have recorded 1,250 cases of forced disappearances in the first eight months of 2015.

MENASource

Sep 1, 2015

Top News: United States, Tunisia to Institute Permanent Information Exchange on Terrorism

By MENASource

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Habib Essid received Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Anne Patterson. In a statement at the end of that talk, Patterson said that focus had been on bilateral cooperation regarding permanent exchange of information between the two countries on terrorism.

MENASource

Sep 1, 2015

EconSource: ISIS Releases New Propaganda Video Announcing New Currency

By EconSource

An Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) propaganda video has announced that a new currency has been minted for use in territory controlled by the jihadist group.

MENASource

Aug 31, 2015

The Al Jazeera Trial: The Verdict, Reactions, and Next Steps

By Elissa Miller

On Saturday, August 29, Egypt’s Cairo Criminal Court sentenced journalists Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed, and Peter Greste to three years in prison, in the latest development in the Al Jazeera trial.

North Africa