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Jul 30, 2015

Top News: US to Deliver Eight F-16 Aircraft to Egypt

By EgyptSource

The United States will deliver eight F-16 Block 52 aircraft to Egypt within the next two days, the US embassy in Cairo said in a statement on Thursday, part of a military package that had been unfrozen earlier this year.

MENASource

Jul 29, 2015

Sheltering Tunisia’s Democratic Experiment from the Region’s Storms

By Jason Pack and Andrea Brody-Barre

It has become common wisdom in Western capitals that Tunisia is the Arab Spring’s only (partial) success story. Yet more needs to be done to protect the country from the instability that surrounds it and threatens to reverse its vulnerable democratic progress.

Libya North Africa

MENASource

Jul 29, 2015

Top News: Turkey Launches Strikes on PKK

By MENASource

Turkish jets launched their heaviest assault yet on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq Tuesday night, striking six Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets including shelters, depots, and caves.

MENASource

Jul 29, 2015

Burying the Emotional Baggage

By Amr Hamzawy

There he goes, now in his forties, returning to the university he once attended, to the city that gave him a love for life, for beauty, and for freedom. He wants to relive that “new beginning” the city gave him in his twenties. But it doesn’t work.

North Africa

MENASource

Jul 29, 2015

Top News: Assets of Seventy-Eight Brotherhood Members Frozen

By EgyptSource

A Justice Ministry panel tasked with tracking the assets and funding of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood has frozen the assets and properties of seventy-eight new group members.

MENASource

Jul 29, 2015

EconSource: BP Joins Total in Writing Off Oil Assets Amid Libya Conflict

By EconSource

Conflict in Libya has led European oil companies including British Petroleum (BP) and France’s Total SA to write off millions of dollars in investments in the country.

MENASource

Jul 28, 2015

The US-Turkey Alliance Against Whom?

By MENASource

The recent deal between Turkey and the United States that allows US air power to use the Incirlik airbase in exchange for maintaining a safe zone along the Turkish-Syrian border represents Turkey’s boldest step yet in the war on the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL).

Syria Turkey

MENASource

Jul 28, 2015

Top News: Syrian Opposition Backs Safe Zone Calls; NATO Warns Turkey Against Excessive Force

By MENASource

Head of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) Khaled Khoja urged NATO partners meeting in Brussels today to support the establishment of a “safe zone” in northern Syria. Khoja said that it would protect civilians from the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) and President Bashar al-Assad’s indiscriminate aerial bombardment.

MENASource

Jul 28, 2015

Top News: Senators Urge Kerry to Focus on Political Reform, Human Rights During US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue

By EgyptSource

US Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Chris Coons (D-DE), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Bob Casey (D-PA) wrote to Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday, ahead of the upcoming US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue on August 2, urging that “political […]

MENASource

Jul 28, 2015

EconSource: Explosion Shuts Down Iran-Turkey Natural Gas Pipeline

By EconSource

Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said an explosion on a natural gas pipeline late on Monday between Iran and Turkey caused a large fire and shut down the flow of gas.