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Top News: Rebels and Yemen’s president reach deal to end standoff

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Dec 16, 2025

What will 2026 bring for the Middle East and North Africa?

As 2025 comes to a close, our senior analysts unpack the most prominent trends and topics they are tracking for the new year.

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Top News: Rebels and Yemen’s president reach deal to end standoff

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Dec 7, 2025

One year after Assad’s fall, here’s what’s needed to advance justice for Syrians

By
Elise Baker and Ahmad Helmi

The second year of a post-Assad Syria requires structural reform, victim-centered leadership, and international reinforcement.

Democratic Transitions
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Top News: Rebels and Yemen’s president reach deal to end standoff

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Nov 20, 2025

Saudi Arabia’s next horizon: Building human capital beyond Vision 2030

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Khalid Azim

Riyadh still needs to take fully support small and medium-sized enterprises—the true engines of job creation.

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Jan 22, 2015

Top News: Rebels and Yemen’s president reach deal to end standoff

By MENASource

Yemen’s President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi expressed readiness on Wednesday to accept demands for constitutional change and power sharing with Houthi rebels. The late-night agreement left unclear who really controls the country.

MENASource

Jan 22, 2015

Top News: Egypt Court Orders Release of Mubarak’s Sons Pending Retrial

By EgyptSource

A lawyer for the sons of Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak said a court ordered their release on Thursday pending retrial in a corruption case, but judicial sources said they would not be freed until prosecutors review other legal cases against them. Their lawyer, Farid al-Deeb, however, said his defendants are expected to leave prison […]

MENASource

Jan 22, 2015

Anniversary of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution Overshadowed by War on Terror

By Khaled Dawoud

A few days ahead of the anniversary of the January 25, 2011 Revolution, all the well known, so-called “revolutionary youth groups” have yet to announce any major events marking the occasion. The Muslim Brotherhood, on the other hand, has repeated its regular, largely ignored, call to protest over the past nineteen months.

North Africa

MENASource

Jan 22, 2015

EconSource: Oil Export Losses to Reach $300 Billion in Middle East

By EconSource

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), losses from lower oil exports should sap up to $300 billion from economies in the Middle East and Central Asia this year, as countries in the region adjust to falling crude prices. An updated outlook on the region predicted that economies particularly dependent on oil exports, including Qatar, […]

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

The Libya Conundrum

By Karim Mezran and Tarek Radwan

What is happening in Libya? And how will Egypt react? Libya today has devolved into a violent political struggle between two major blocs: the internationally recognized, Tobruk-based parliament versus Tripoli’s parliament and administration.

Libya
North Africa

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

Syria: The Policy Cul-De-Sac

By Frederic C. Hof

US policy toward Syria is stalled in a cul-de-sac. It occupies the strategic low ground between an August 2011 presidential call for Bashar al-Assad to step aside, the June 2014 eruption of the Assad-conjured Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) into Iraq from Syria, and the administration’s resolute reluctance to act in accordance with a fundamental […]

Syria

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

Top News: Houthi leader gives list of demands in televised speech

By MENASource

Sheikh Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi spoke hours after fighters from the Houthi group battled guards at President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi’s private home. Calling his measures “open-ended,” he laid out four demands.

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

Top News: HRW Says Conditions in Egyptian Prisons ‘Life-Threatening’

By EgyptSource

Human Rights Watch accused Egyptian authorities in a statement released on Wednesday of failing to take serious steps to improve conditions in overcrowded prisons which are causing deaths. The government denied the accusations.

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

Missing the Roots of the Crisis in Yemen

By MENASource

Hope for Yemen’s political transition suffered a major blow over the past two days as Houthi rebels shelled the presidential palace and put President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi, a key US ally, under house arrest. Yemen’s Information Minister Nadia Sakkaf reported that Hadi had lost all control over the country, including in the capital, Sana’a.

Yemen

MENASource

Jan 21, 2015

EconSource: Algeria’s Trade Surplus Down to $4.6 Billion in 2014

By EconSource

According to the Algerian Customs’ National Centre of Data Processing and Statistics, the country’s surplus trade stood at $4.63 billion in 2014, against $9.94 billion in 2013, declining by nearly 53.5 percent. This decline in the trade surplus was reportedly driven by increased exports by 3 percent during last year, with the percentage of imports […]

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