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Jul 10, 2015

Egypt’s New Anti-Terror Law: An In-Depth Reading

By Sonia Farid

The assassination of Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat—the first attempt on a senior official’s life since a bombing targeted the Interior Minister in 2013—came as a shock. With the attack taking place in highly secured area in Cairo —the Military Academy neighborhood—the threat suddenly felt much closer to home for many. One of the government’s first […]

North Africa

MENASource

Jul 10, 2015

Top News: Humanitarian Pause Reached in Yemen

By MENASource

The United Nations has announced an “unconditional humanitarian pause” in the Yemen conflict starting at midnight local time Friday and is seeking commitments from all parties to stop all violence.

MENASource

Jul 10, 2015

EconSource: IMF Further Cuts Saudi Growth Projections

By EconSource

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday further cut its growth projections for Saudi Arabia’s oil dependent economy despite a rebound in crude oil prices.

MENASource

Jul 10, 2015

A Look at the 2014 State Department Human Rights Report on Egypt

By Amy Hawthorne and Elissa Miller

Four months after the congressionally mandated due date, the US State Department finally released its 2014 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.  The report on Egypt paints a disturbing picture of the human rights crisis afflicting the country since the military ousted former president Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood on July 3, 2013, following […]

North Africa

MENASource

Jul 9, 2015

Top News: UN Says More Than Four Million Refugees Have Now Fled Syria

By MENASource

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported on Thursday that more than four million Syrians have fled abroad since the civil war began in 2011 and an additional 7.6 million people have been displaced from their homes within Syria.

MENASource

Jul 9, 2015

Top News: Egypt to Buy Border Surveillance System from Pentagon for $100 Million

By EgyptSource

Egyptian officials want to buy high-tech American border surveillance equipment, the Pentagon said Wednesday, citing Cairo’s desire to better monitor its borders with Libya specifically and other countries, as well.

MENASource

Jul 9, 2015

EconSource: World Bank Approves $350 Million Aid Package for Iraq

By EconSource

The World Bank (WB) approved a $350 million financial assistance package earlier this week to help rebuild infrastructure in Iraq that has been damaged by war and restore public services in local areas.

MENASource

Jul 8, 2015

Top News: Sisi Tells American Jewish Committee Resolving the Palestinian Issue is Key to Counter ‘Terrorism’

By EgyptSource

Resolving the Palestinian issue will eliminate one of the most important reasons why people join “terrorist organizations,” President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told the American Jewish Committee (AJC) on Monday.

MENASource

Jul 8, 2015

After Sinai, Calls for Revenge Dominate

By Khaled Dawoud

Angry chants demanding the execution of top Muslim Brotherhood leaders are commonplace at funerals of security personnel killed in terrorist attacks. These calls now seem stronger than ever following the assassination of late Prosecutor General, Hisham Barakat, and the death of at least twenty-one soldiers and officers in clashes with terrorists late last week in […]

North Africa

MENASource

Jul 8, 2015

Top News: McCain Suggests United States is ‘losing’ Against ISIS

By MENASource

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain said at the Committee hearing Tuesday that “there is no compelling reason to believe that anything we are currently doing will be sufficient to achieve the President’s long-stated goal of degrading and ultimately destroying ISIS – either in the short-term or the long-term.”