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Sep 4, 2015

Top News: US-Saudi Talks to Focus on Iran, Yemen, and Syria

By MENASource

When King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud’s meets US President Barack Obama at the White House, the two leaders will be seeking a renewal of an historic US-Saudi strategic partnership recently threatened due to a rising set of challenges in the Middle East.

MENASource

Sep 4, 2015

Top News: Sinai Blasts Injure Six Peacekeepers, Including Four Americans, Pentagon Says

By EgyptSource

Six soldiers including four Americans were injured on Thursday in two blasts in northeast Sinai caused by improvised explosive devices, the Pentagon said.

MENASource

Sep 4, 2015

EconSource: Standard & Poor’s Rates Iraq for First Time

By EconSource

Financial services company Standard & Poor’s (S&P) issued a credit rating for Iraq for the first time on Thursday, giving the country a junk score.

MENASource

Sep 3, 2015

Egypt’s Anti-Terror Law: A Translation

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved, in mid-August, a new anti-terror law aimed at strengthening the country’s efforts in combatting a rising terror insurgency.

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MENASource

Sep 3, 2015

Top News: UN Investigators Denounce International Failure to Protect Refugees

By MENASource

UN investigators on Thursday denounced the international community’s failure to protect refugees fleeing Syria, saying the neglect of those forced to flee the conflict had fueled Europe’s migrant crisis.

MENASource

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.