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Top News: ISIS Claim Suicide Bombing in Sana’a Mosque

MENASource
Jan 14, 2026

Voices from Iran: As rejection of government reaches all-time high, Iranians also wary of foreign intervention

If Trump is serious about peace, stability, and a lasting legacy, the path forward does not run through air strikes or transactional deals with a failing theocracy.

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Top News: ISIS Claim Suicide Bombing in Sana’a Mosque

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Jan 28, 2026

Trump’s National Security Strategy doesn’t downgrade the Middle East, it redefines it

By
Kristian Alexander

Trump’s strategy is a sophisticated refinement of “America First.” For the Gulf, the implications are significant, but manageable.

Middle East
National Security

Top News: ISIS Claim Suicide Bombing in Sana’a Mosque

MENASource
Jan 13, 2026

Eight questions (and expert answers) on the SDF’s withdrawal from Syria’s Aleppo

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Atlantic Council experts

Our experts unpack why violence erupted, what it means for Kurdish safety and integration in Syria, and how Washington is engaging.

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Sep 24, 2015

Top News: ISIS Claim Suicide Bombing in Sana’a Mosque

By MENASource

Yemen’s branch of the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) claimed responsibility on Thursday for a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Yemen’s capital Sana’a that killed at least twenty-nine people and wounded at least thirty-six.

MENASource

Sep 24, 2015

Top News: No politics, No Campaigning in Eid Sermons, Warns Endowments Ministry

By EgyptSource

The Endowments Ministry warned preachers against campaigning for the upcoming elections in their Eid Al-Adha sermons, as aspiring parliamentary candidates gear up for the first round of voting at the end of October.

MENASource

Sep 24, 2015

EconSource: Soaring Bad Debts Sound Alarm in Turkey

By EconSource

The deterioration of Turkey’s economy is accelerating, as political uncertainty, early elections, and a conflict with Kurdish militants take a toll on the economy.

MENASource

Sep 24, 2015

PKK-Turkey Conflict Could Hurt Kurdish Fight Against ISIS in Syria

By Wladimir van Wilgenburg

The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) operating in Syria and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraq have become indirect partners of the Western anti-Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) coalition. In July 2015, however, the Turkish Armed Forces launched airstrikes against PKK targets following an attack that killed two policemen.

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MENASource

Sep 23, 2015

Top News: EU Urges Libya Parties to Grasp Peace Deal

By MENASource

The European Union is urging Libya’s warring factions to grasp the opportunity of a new peace deal and is promising backing once a unity government is formed.

MENASource

Sep 23, 2015

Top News: Egypt Pardons 100, Including Al Jazeera Journalists, Activists Sanaa Seif and Yara Sallam

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced on Wednesday the pardoning of 100 prisoners, including Al Jazeera’s television journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, and prominent activists, Sanaa Seif and Yara Sallam, who were charged with violating the protest law.

MENASource

Sep 22, 2015

Top News: Fifty People Killed in Saudi-Led Coalition Airstrikes

By MENASource

Airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition killed fifty people in Yemen when they hit a Houthi-held security compound and a house in Sana’a in an escalating campaign that has claimed increasing civilian lives. The bombing campaign coincides with the Saudi announcement that Houthi forces are holding two of its soldiers.

MENASource

Sep 22, 2015

Top News: HRW Condemns Egypt’s Sinai Campaign; Cabinet Says Egypt Complied With International Law

By EgyptSource

The Egyptian government’s destruction of thousands of buildings in the Rafah border area to “counter the threat of smuggling tunnels was likely disproportionate,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in an 84-page report released Tuesday.

MENASource

Sep 22, 2015

EconSource: Tunisian Government, Labor Union Sign Deal on Public Worker Wage Hike

By EconSource

Tunisia’s government and the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) signed an agreement on Tuesday to increase the wages of 800,000 public sector workers for the second time this year after weeks of negotiations.

MENASource

Sep 21, 2015

Top News: US to Accept 85,000 Refugees in 2016 and 100,000 in 2017

By MENASource

Scrambling to address a growing Syrian refugee crisis, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced Sunday that the United States would significantly increase the number of worldwide migrants it takes in over the next two years, though not nearly the amount many activists and former officials have urged.

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