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Jun 2, 2015

EconSource: IMF Lifts Outlook for Saudi GDP, Sees Bigger Budget Gap this Year

By EconSource

Saudi Arabia’s economy will keep expanding this year, showing little effect from the oil price drop, but growth will slow in 2016 as lower oil revenues hit state spending, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said after talks with Saudi officials.

MENASource

Jun 2, 2015

Religious Kurds Key to Turkish Electoral Outcomes

By Aaron Stein

Just days before Turkish citizens head to the poll for the June 7 national election, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Turkey’s fourth largest party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) are competing for the hearts and minds of religiously minded Kurds.

Turkey

MENASource

Jun 1, 2015

Top News: Iraqi Forces Edge Towards Ramadi

By MENASource

Iraqi forces retook an area west of Ramadi on Saturday as they pressed their operation aimed at sealing off ISIS by severing their supply lines.

MENASource

Jun 1, 2015

Top News: Hunger-striking Prisoner Mohamed Soltan Gives Up Egyptian Citizenship, is Deported to US

By EgyptSource

Egyptian authorities freed an Egyptian American on Saturday who was sentenced to life in prison and had been on hunger strike for over a year, forcing him to renounce his Egyptian citizenship as a precondition of his release.

MENASource

Jun 1, 2015

EconSource: Oil Halts Advance as Saudis Pump at Record Before OPEC Meeting

By EconSource

Oil halted a two-day advance as Saudi Arabia maintained record crude output in May before the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meets this week to discuss its production policy.

MENASource

May 29, 2015

Top News: Saudi Arabia Suicide Bomb Attack Kills Four in Dammam

By MENASource

A suicide attack on Friday occurred near al-Anoud mosque in the eastern city of Dammam, where many Shia live.

MENASource

May 29, 2015

EconSource: Libya on Verge of Economic Collapse, UN Envoy Warns

By EconSource

The United Nation’s Special Envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon said Thursday that Libya is on the verge of economic collapse as rival factions haggle over a political settlement.

MENASource

May 29, 2015

Top News: Police Officer Acquitted of Charge of Torturing 2011 Suspect to Death

By EgyptSource

An Egyptian court on Thursday acquitted a state security officer who had been convicted of torturing to death an Islamist detainee, state media said. Mohamed Abdel Rahman al-Shemi had been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for torturing and killing Salafist detainee, Sayed Bilal.

MENASource

May 28, 2015

Rare Acquittal Renews Protest Law Debate

By Khaled Dawoud

The dozens of lawyers crammed in a small room at Abdin’s Courthouse on May 23 were unable to contain their shock when the judge ruled to acquit all seventeen defendants charged with holding an illegal protest on January 24. The defendants, accused of breaking Egypt’s restrictive protest law, were facing up to five years in […]

North Africa

MENASource

May 28, 2015

Top News: Airstrikes Kill At Least Eighty in Deadliest Bombings of Yemen War

By MENASource

Saudi-led airstrikes killed at least eighty people near Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia and in the capital Sana’a on Wednesday, residents said, the deadliest day of bombing in over two months of war in Yemen.