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Libya’s Geneva Talks and the Search for Peace

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Jun 3, 2025

India-Gulf relations are muted—but mobilizing

The depth of Indian-Gulf relations creates a strong foundation for increased India-Middle East integration over the coming decades.

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Libya’s Geneva Talks and the Search for Peace

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Jun 4, 2025

What Lebanon’s municipal election results mean for Hezbollah

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David Daoud

Municipal election results did not demonstrate the militant group’s dominance over Lebanon’s Shiites, but Hezbollah nevertheless retains popularity.

Elections
Lebanon

Libya’s Geneva Talks and the Search for Peace

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Jun 9, 2025

Armenia’s ‘crossroads’ offers the US and Israel a rare opportunity

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Sheila Paylan

Clinching peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan offers the US and Israel a rare chance to tilt the balance of power in the South Caucuses.

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Feb 6, 2015

Libya’s Geneva Talks and the Search for Peace

By Mohamed Eljarh

In Libya, basic services face the prospect of complete collapse as the country’s financial situation spirals out of control. The minister health of the internationally recognized government in the eastern city of al-Beida has warned of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, worse than that witnessed during the war against the Qaddafi regime in 2011.

Libya

MENASource

Feb 5, 2015

The Picture around Shaimaa

By Yasmin El-Rifae

On January 29, five days after Shaimaa el-Sabbagh was killed as police dispersed a peaceful protest in downtown Cairo, a group of women gathered at the site of her death. They were there to protest the brutality and impunity of the Egyptian police. The protest was small, with no more than seventy women taking part.

North Africa

MENASource

Feb 5, 2015

Top News: Parties in Yemen strike deal; Presidential council formed

By MENASource

Most Yemeni factions have agreed to set up an interim presidential council to manage the country for up to one year.

MENASource

Feb 5, 2015

Top News: US and EU Condemn Mass Life-in-prison Sentences in “Cabinet Clashes” Trial

By EgyptSource

The United States and the European Union condemned the mass sentencing of 230 defendants, including political activist Ahmed Douma, to life in prison in the “cabinet clashes” trial on Wednesday. State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters in a press briefing on Wednesday its government was “deeply troubled” by the verdict. The EU said the […]

MENASource

Feb 5, 2015

EconSource: Jordan, US Sign $3 Billion Aid Program

By EconSource

The Jordanian government signed , during a visit of King Abdullah II to Washington, a memorandum of understanding with the United States government. In the memorandum the US offers, within its annual support program to the Jordan, aid worth $1 billion annually in economic, developmental and military fields. The previous US aid package amounted to […]

MENASource

Feb 5, 2015

Fact Box: ‘Egyptian Revolutionary Council’ Visits Washington DC

By EgyptSource

A delegation of Egyptians in opposition to the current government arrived in Washington, DC on January 25 to meet with representatives from universities, research centers, and think tanks, as well as the US Department of State. The delegation represents the so-called Egyptian Parliament in Exile , a body affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, and the […]

North Africa

MENASource

Feb 4, 2015

Three Lessons Drawn from Tunisia’s Cabinet Formation Process

By Karim Mezran and Lara Talverdian

The political maneuverings in Tunisia over the last few weeks bear the hallmarks of a nascent democracy. Developments have involved negotiations, checks on power, and nuanced political calculations that demonstrate an overall political maturity among Tunisian authorities—the reason why so many international observers and policymakers have time and again heralded the North African country as […]

North Africa

MENASource

Feb 4, 2015

Declaring War on Radical Islam Is Not a Counterterrorism Strategy

By Richard LeBaron

Some members of Congress and noisy portions of the media and blogosphere are vexed by President Barack Obama’s refusal to declare war on “radical Islam.” Their distress seemed to be only exacerbated by the President’s measured and sensible response to Fareed Zakaria during a CNN interview last Sunday when asked, “Are we in a war […]

Middle East

MENASource

Feb 4, 2015

Top News: Jordan hangs two Iraqi terrorists in response to pilot’s death

By MENASource

Jordan executed al-Qaeda affiliated Iraqi female suicide bomber Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad al-Karbouley before dawn Wednesday, just hours after an online video purported to show Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) militants burning a captured Jordanian pilot to death in a cage.

MENASource

Feb 4, 2015

Top News: Leading Egypt Activist Ahmed Douma Sentenced to Life

By EgyptSource

An Egyptian court sentenced 230 people, including Ahmed Douma, a leading secular activist behind the country’s 2011 uprising, to life in prison after finding them guilty on Wednesday of taking part in the “Cabinet Clashes” between protesters and security forces.

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