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Top News: Yemen Struggles to Import Food as Coalition Navies Hold Up More Ships

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May 28, 2025

Sectarianism, social media, and Syria’s information blackhole

Since Assad’s December ousting, Syrians have struggled to sift the truth from fake claims about security incidents across the country.

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Top News: Yemen Struggles to Import Food as Coalition Navies Hold Up More Ships

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May 28, 2025

Mickey goes to the Gulf: The UAE’s wish upon a soft power star

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Amit Yarom

In a region often defined by hard power rivalries, Abu Dhabi has chosen to compete through visibility, credibility and imagination.

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Middle East

Top News: Yemen Struggles to Import Food as Coalition Navies Hold Up More Ships

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May 27, 2025

Jordan-Israel security cooperation continues quietly but unabated 

By
Emily Milliken

Despite diplomatic setbacks from the Israel-Gaza war, military and intelligence cooperation continues to thrive between the two neighbors.

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Apr 28, 2015

Top News: Yemen Struggles to Import Food as Coalition Navies Hold Up More Ships

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Yemen is facing mounting problems bringing in food by sea as the danger from fighting between Houthis and government supporters is exacerbated by an arms blockade by Saudi-led coalition navies searching ships for weapons destined for the rebels.

MENASource

Apr 28, 2015

What’s Next for Egypt’s Military and Media Moguls?

By Miriam Berger

It’s just past three o’clock in December and the Dot Masr office is bustling. Dozens of twenty-something Egyptians tap away at desktop computers in the website’s open newsroom in the two-story office in Garden City, Cairo — prime real estate. 

North Africa

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Apr 28, 2015

Top News: New Lawsuit Against Mubarak to Investigate Political Crimes

By EgyptSource

The Administrative Court of the State Council referred on Tuesday the lawsuit filed by Samir Sabry to the State Commissioner’s Authority, seeking a legal opinion. In the lawsuit, Sabry demanded that the President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi form a fact-finding committee to prepare a report on corruption crimes committed under former President Hosni Mubarak. 

MENASource

Apr 28, 2015

EconSource: Gulf Banks Tighten Credit for Small Firms as Cheap Oil Bites

By EconSource

Banks are tightening lending conditions for small, private companies in the Gulf, a sign that the region’s economies are not escaping damage from the plunge of oil prices.

MENASource

Apr 27, 2015

Syria: Is Assad Slipping?

By Frederic C. Hof

Recent tactical setbacks by Assad regime forces in northwestern Syria are reviving—for the first time since early 2013—fin du régime hopes and speculation. Reporting from the region suggests that arms transfers from Gulf powers and Turkey are enabling rebels to overcome exhausted and exposed Syrian Arab Army units.

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MENASource

Apr 27, 2015

Sisi Pulls the Plug on the Religious Debate

By Khaled Dawoud

Over the past two weeks, Egyptians were not occupied with the daily terrorist attacks in Cairo, Sinai and elsewhere in which dozens were killed, or with regional wars in Yemen, Libya, and Syria. Instead, the heated debate on the airwaves and in newspapers was over a call by a prominent journalist for Egyptian women to […]

North Africa

MENASource

Apr 27, 2015

Top News: State Owned Al-Ahram Slams Police Abuse of Power

By EgyptSource

State-owned newspaper Al-Ahram, renowned for its pro-government stance, released a report Saturday slamming police abuses of power and negligence.

MENASource

Apr 27, 2015

Top News: Coalition of Rebel Factions Seize Control Over Jisr al-Shughur

By MENASource

A coalition of rebel factions, including the Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham, captured the northwestern Syrian town of Jisr al-Shughur in Idlib Province on Saturday.

MENASource

Apr 27, 2015

EconSource: Gulf Deposits Will Raise Egypt’s Foreign Reserves to Over $20 Billion

By EconSource

Egypt’s foreign reserves are expected to rise to over $20 billion after recent Gulf deposits, the Governor of Egypt’s central bank has said. Egypt received deposits worth a total of $6 billion from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait last week.

MENASource

Apr 27, 2015

Egypt’s Virtual Fight Against Terrorism

By MENASource

When one thinks of cybercrime, thoughts typically veer toward identity and information theft or hacking and sabotage of websites—but the Egyptian government has taken it a step further. This month, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s cabinet sent a draft sent a cybercrime bill to the State Council for review.

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