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Mar 18, 2015

EconSource: Libyan government planning oil export program to weaken rival

By EconSource

Libya’s internationally-recognized government asked companies buying oil from ports under its control to deal with its administration, a move seen as an effort to weaken its rival Islamist-backed cabinet. Any sales of the country’s oil should now be arranged through a state firm based in Benghazi in order to prevent fraud. The chairman of the […]

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Mar 17, 2015

Is Assad’s Departure a “Legitimate Concern?”

By Frederic C. Hof

CIA Director John Brennan told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Friday, March 13 that the near-term collapse of Syria’s Assad regime raises “a legitimate concern” about the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) and other jihadist extremists capitalizing on it.

Syria

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Mar 17, 2015

Top News: Six Dead in Apparent Gas Attack in Syria

By MENASource

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that government forces carried out a poison gas attack that killed at least six people in the northwest, and medics posted videos of children suffering what they said was suffocation.

MENASource

Mar 17, 2015

Top News: Egypt Charges Muslim Brotherhood, Ultras Over Soccer Violence Deaths

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s public prosecutor said on Tuesday members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and Zamalek supporters, the Ultras White Knights, were charged with killing and inciting violence in connection with the deaths of twenty-two soccer fans who clashed with security forces last month. 

MENASource

Mar 17, 2015

EconSource: Kuwait considering imposing corporate tax

By EconSource

Kuwait has sought help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to introduce corporate taxes in a bid to diversify revenue in the face of falling oil prices. Kuwait currently imposes no taxes on local companies, Kuwaiti citizens, and expatriates but it requires foreign firms to pay 15 percent tax on their profits. The IMF has […]

MENASource

Mar 17, 2015

What Was Pledged at Egypt’s Investment Conference?

By EgyptSource

Prior to Egypt’s Economic Development Conference, Investment Minister Ashraf Salman had said Egypt expects to sign agreements worth up to $20 billion at the summit. With the conference coming to a close on Sunday, Salman revealed the final figures coming out of the summit. According to Salman, Egypt signed deals worth a total $38.2 billion, […]

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Mar 16, 2015

Top News: Yemeni Opposition’s United Front Against Houthis

By MENASource

Opponents of Yemen’s Houthi militia announced the formation of a national alliance on Saturday to restore the authority of the state, in a major shakeup of Yemen’s political landscape.

MENASource

Mar 16, 2015

Top News: Over $70 Billion Pledged at Economic Conference Says Prime Minister

By EgyptSource

Contributions worth $72.5 billion were pledged over the course of Egypt’s Economic Development Conference, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab said in his closing speech on Sunday. The contributions were divided between investments, aid, and loans, $33 billion of which had been signed and were ready to be implemented. 

MENASource

Mar 16, 2015

Negotiate With Assad?

By Frederic C. Hof

Over the weekend in Egypt, CBS News asked Secretary of State John Kerry in an interview if he would be willing to negotiate with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. “Well,” said Kerry, “we have to negotiate in the end. We’ve always been willing to negotiate in the context of the Geneva I process.” In fact, the “Geneva […]

MENASource

Mar 16, 2015

Syria at Four Years

By Frederic C. Hof

In March 2011 Bashar al-Assad elected to respond to peaceful protests against police brutality with lethal violence. Was this a choice he made freely and consciously? Or was he obliged by his security chieftains to beat, shoot, incarcerate, and torture protesters?

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