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Oct 7, 2014

Talk of an Egyptian Boycott of Turkish Goods Won’t Do Anyone Any Good

By Dominic Dudley

Over the past few weeks Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has taken almost every possible opportunity to publically criticize the July 2013 coup that brought President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to power in Egypt in place of Ankara’s hapless ally, Mohamed Morsi.

North Africa

MENASource

Oct 7, 2014

Top News: Two Policemen Detained after Bomb Explodes at Cairo Court

By EgyptSource

  Prosecutors have ordered the detention of two policemen for negligence after a bomb exploded inside a Cairo court.

MENASource

Oct 7, 2014

Top News: US Strikes Outskirts of Ayn al-Arab as Turkey Warns of City’s Imminent Defeat

By MENASource

Fresh airstrikes by the US-led coalition on Tuesday hit positions held by ISIS jihadists in the southwest of the key Syrian border town of Ayn al-Arab (Kobani in Kurdish) a day after the extremists seized three districts in the city’s east.

MENASource

Oct 7, 2014

EconSource: IMF Cuts Arab Growth Forecast, But Sees Gulf Still Strong

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries. 

MENASource

Oct 7, 2014

Tunisia’s Politicians Must Manage Expectations

By Scott Mastic

Turbulence seen across the Middle East and North Africa has caused most observers rightly to see Tunisia as the last best chance for a democratic outcome to the 2011 Arab Spring.

North Africa

MENASource

Oct 6, 2014

Biden on the Rise of ISIS

By Frederic C. Hof

The Vice President of the United States spent part of his weekend on the phone to American allies and friends apologizing for remarks he made on Friday, October 3, at Harvard University’s Kennedy School.

Syria

MENASource

Oct 6, 2014

Egypt in Focus: President Sisi in Power

By EgyptSource

Gaining a new president roughly five months ago, Egypt’s domestic and foreign policies are slowly beginning to take shape. An energy crisis, subsidy cuts, and a grand megaproject remain at the forefront of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s economic policy, while his foreign policy focuses on alliances with the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and mending US-Egypt relations. […]

North Africa

MENASource

Oct 6, 2014

Top News: AQAP Executes Fourteen Soldiers in Hadramout

By MENASource

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a video Sunday night showing the execution of fourteen soldiers in the city of Shibam from August. The video depicts al-Qaeda forces waylaying a military bus and kidnapping the soldiers on board. The leader of the militant force claims the soldiers are Houthis whose political forces have been […]

MENASource

Oct 6, 2014

Top News: Egypt Arrests Militants Recruiting for ISIS

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s state news agency says security forces have arrested four suspected members of a militant cell recruiting fighters for the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham.

MENASource

Oct 6, 2014

EconSource: Yemen Reform Plan Still Broadly In Line with IMF Loan Terms– Lagarde

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries.