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May 19, 2015

EconSource: Libya’s State Oil Firm Opens Books to Buyers to Soothe Payment Fears

By EconSource

Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) has opened its books to international oil firms and is meeting regularly with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) to keep them on board with the current payment system for Libya’s oil exports.

MENASource

May 18, 2015

Top News: Morsi Sentenced to Death for Prison Break Pending Mufti’s Recommendation

By EgyptSource

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 others to death for their role in a mass jailbreak during the 2011 uprising.

MENASource

May 18, 2015

Top News: US Raid in Syria Killed Thirty-Two ISIS Militants, Including Four Leaders

By MENASource

A US special forces raid in eastern Syria killed thirty-two members of the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL), including four leaders, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday.

MENASource

May 18, 2015

EconSource: Oil Prices Rise on Iraq, Yemen Fighting

By EconSource

Oil prices rose slightly in trading on supply concerns in the Middle East following fighting in Iraq and Yemen. There are concerns that the conflict in Iraq and Saudi attacks on Yemen could disrupt production or supply routes.

MENASource

May 15, 2015

Top News: Obama Pledges More Military Aid to Reassure Gulf Allies on Iran Deal

By MENASource

A renewed joint commitment to build the regional defense system was one of the few firm outcomes of Thursday’s Camp David summit between President Barack Obama and Gulf allies seeking fresh US defense pledges ahead of a possible nuclear deal they fear will empower Iran.

MENASource

May 15, 2015

Turkish Leaders Make Bold Statements at NATO Meeting

By Jorge Benitez

NATO foreign ministers concluded their meeting in Antalya, Turkey on May 14. This gathering was the first time since Berlin in 2011 that NATO foreign ministers met in a city other than Brussels.

Turkey

MENASource

May 15, 2015

EconSource: Abu Dhabi Pivots to Asian Partners in $22 Billion Oil Push

By EconSource

Abu Dhabi, with 6 percent of global crude reserves, selected GS Energy Corporation of South Korea to join Japan’s Inpex Corporation as the second Asian partner in the Persian Gulf emirate’s biggest onshore oil concession.

MENASource

May 15, 2015

Top News: ‘Hard’ to Guarantee Completely Transparent Election says Election Committee Member

By EgyptSource

Spokesperson for the High Elections Committee (HEC) Omar Marwan said on Wednesday that it’s “hard” for any elections supervision committee to guarantee completely transparent parliamentary elections.

MENASource

May 15, 2015

Turkey May Acknowledge the Past, But Not Yet

By Piotr Zalewski

Only a decade earlier, it would have been an unimaginable sight. On April 24, more than a thousand people crowded Istanbul’s biggest pedestrian street to hold a vigil commemorating the centenary of the 1915 massacres of 600,000 to 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians.

Turkey

MENASource

May 14, 2015

Top News: Iraq Ministry Says an ISIS Leader Killed

By MENASource

Iraq’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday the second most senior member of the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) had been killed in a coalition airstrike on a mosque where he was meeting with other militants in the north of the country.