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May 14, 2015

Top News: Leading Muslim Brotherhood Figure Dies in Jail

By EgyptSource

A senior Muslim Brotherhood official died in Egypt on Wednesday after more than a year in detention, the interior ministry said in a statement. Farid Ismail, a former lawmaker and official in the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Brotherhood’s political arm, died in a Cairo hospital of liver failure aged 58, medical and police […]

MENASource

May 14, 2015

A New Sinai Battle? Bedouin Tribes and Egypt’s ISIS Affiliate

By Mokhtar Awad and Mostafa Abdou

Recent developments in Sinai have once again raised the specter of a “tribal awakening” to rid the region of jihadists. Talk in recent years of armed tribal action against jihadists is not new and has generally gone nowhere, but a number of dynamics may make this moment different. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, (ABM), an Islamic State […]

North Africa

MENASource

May 14, 2015

EconSource: Yemen War Could Strangle Strategic Sea Trade Routes

By EconSource

With Saudi Arabia and Iran squaring up on opposing sides in the Yemen war, the dangers to vital oil tanker and goods voyages are growing.

MENASource

May 13, 2015

Turkey’s Role in a Shifting Syria

By Aaron Stein

In recent weeks, a Turkish backed umbrella group dubbed Jaysh al-Fateh has taken control of Idlib, prompting speculation that the group’s recent advance could mark a turning point in the war.

Syria Turkey

MENASource

May 13, 2015

A Toothless Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan

By Tuqa Nusairat

The Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood finds itself increasingly under the spotlight as it battles regional and domestic pressures aimed at significantly toning down its already quiet presence in the Kingdom.

MENASource

May 13, 2015

Top News: Investigators Have War Crimes Case on Bashar al-Assad

By MENASource

A three-year operation to smuggle official documents out of Syria has produced enough evidence to indict President Bashar al-Assad and twenty-four senior members of his regime, according to the findings of an international investigative commission.

MENASource

May 13, 2015

Top News: President Sisi Delivers Comprehensive Speech on Governance, Security, and Development

By EgyptSource

During what was announced as a monthly speech to the nation on Tuesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi addressed a number of the country’s developmental issues, providing statistics for each. Sisi refrained from going into detail on many of the government’s current projects, “because evil forces are trying to put a stop to the march […]

MENASource

May 13, 2015

EconSource: Gulf Petrochemical Producers to Push for EU Trade Deal

By EconSource

The main trade body representing petrochemicals producers in the Gulf, the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA), plans to put pressure on European Union (EU) and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) negotiators to reach a trade deal.

MENASource

May 13, 2015

Assessing Iran’s Strategy Toward the Arab World

By Richard LeBaron

Richard LeBaron delivered the following remarks at a discussion hosted by the Middle East Institute in Washington DC on March 27, 2015.

International Organizations Iran

MENASource

May 13, 2015

A New Saudi Foreign Policy for a New Era

By Bilal Y. Saab

Bilal Y. Saab spoke to a military audience at the National Defense University’s Near East and South Asia Center on May 5, 2015. Please read his remarks below. 

Iran Saudi Arabia