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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.

MENASource

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.