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Jul 1, 2015

Top News: Massive Prison Break in Yemen’s Taiz

By MENASource

Around 1,200 prisoners, including suspected members of al-Qaeda, escaped during clashes at a jail in Taiz on Tuesday, a security official said. The incident is the largest in a series of prison breaks that have freed Yemeni militants in recent years and signals the further erosion of the state amid a raging civil war.

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Jul 1, 2015

Top News: Militants Attack Egyptian Army Checkpoints in Sinai, Kill Fifty; Sinai State Claims Responsibility

By EgyptSource

Islamic militants on Wednesday unleashed a wave of simultaneous attacks, including suicide car bombings, on Egyptian army checkpoints in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, killing at least fifty soldiers, a security source said.

MENASource

Jul 1, 2015

EconSource: Egypt Revises Draft 2015/16 Budget to Cut Deficit to 8.9 Percent of GDP

By EconSource

Egypt has amended the draft budget for fiscal year 2015/2016 and cut the projected deficit to 8.9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) from last month’s projection of 9.9 percent of GDP.

MENASource

Jun 30, 2015

Top News: ISIS Kills Twenty-Eight in Sana’a

By MENASource

The Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) has claimed responsibility for an attack on Monday night in Sana’a that left at least twenty-eight dead. The car bomb attack targeted Houthi rebel chief brothers Faycal and Hamid Jayache during a gathering to mourn the death of a family member, a security source said.

MENASource

Jun 30, 2015

Top News: Egypt’s Sisi Pledges Stricter Laws after Murder of Top Prosecutor

By EgyptSource

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has vowed to amend laws in Egypt within days to achieve “rapid justice” against militants a day after the assassination of the country’s top public prosecutor.

MENASource

Jun 30, 2015

EconSource: Tunisia Estimates $515 Million in Tourism Losses, Decline in Foreign Reserves Following Attack

By EconSource

Tunisia estimates at least $515 million in losses in 2015 for its tourism industry after last Friday’s attack on a beach hotel that killed 39 people, the tourism minister said.

MENASource

Jun 29, 2015

Q&A: The Assassination of Egypt’s Prosecutor General

By Suzanne Gaber

In the first assassination of a government official in Egypt since 1990, Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat was killed Monday after a bomb hit his convoy in the Cairo. Barakat, who was injured in the attack, was transferred to the Nozha Hospital where he succumbed to his wounds hours later.

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MENASource

Jun 29, 2015

The Saudi-Houthi Stalemate in Yemen

By Nabeel Khoury

Saudi Arabia launched its war on the Houthis in March 2015; the Houthis launched their war on the rest of Yemen in September of 2014. Four months after the former and close to a year after the latter, Yemen stands on a precipice and neither has accomplished their declared goals.

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MENASource

Jun 29, 2015

Top News: Bombing in Egypt Leaves Top Prosecutor Dead

By MENASource

Egypt’s Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat died following a bomb attack on his vehicle early Monday, medical sources said. Earlier reports had suggested Barakat was stable. One civilian and five members of the security forces were also injured in the attack on the prosecutor’s convoy near the military academy in Heliopolis.

MENASource

Jun 29, 2015

Top News: Egypt’s Top Prosecutor Killed in Bomb Attack

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s Prosecutor General, Hisham Barakat, died following a bomb attack on his vehicle early Monday, medical sources said. Earlier reports had suggested Barakat was stable.