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Oct 10, 2014

Top News: ISIS Captures Kurdish Headquarters in Kobani

By MENASource

ISIS militants overran the headquarters of Kurdish forces defending the battleground Syrian border town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab in Arabic) on Friday. Fierce fighting had raged for the complex throughout the morning after ISIS militants captured part of it used by the Kurds’ internal security force on Thursday.

MENASource

Oct 10, 2014

Top News: Egypt’s Universities Issue More Security Regulations Ahead of New Semester

By EgyptSource

University administrations are tightening their grip on student communities with an onslaught of new security measures as they prepare for the new academic year on October 11.

MENASource

Oct 10, 2014

Syria: A Problem In Search of a Strategy

By Frederic C. Hof

As matters now stand, the Obama administration sees the Syrian side of the anti-Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS, or the Islamic State) military campaign in the context of a headquarters/safe-haven for an enemy whose main target is Iraq.

Syria

MENASource

Oct 10, 2014

Is Egypt Hurting or Helping Libya?

By EgyptSource

As Egypt simultaneously rejects foreign intervention in Libya’s internal affairs and inches ever closer into a partnership of assistance with its neighbor to the west, announcing its plans to train Libyan forces to fight terrorism. Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni’s recent visit to Cairo has served to further cement this partnership between an anti-Islamist Egyptian […]

Libya North Africa

MENASource

Oct 10, 2014

EconSource: Egypt Discusses Economic Reforms with IMF

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Oct 9, 2014

Egypt and Libya: A Fatal Embrace?

By Karim Mezran

The stalemate emerging from the armed political conflict in Libya today suggests that neither the Islamist-backed Operation Dawn nor the more secular Operation Dignity movements have the capacity to dominate the other.

Libya North Africa

MENASource

Oct 9, 2014

Top News: ISIS Captures One-Third of Kobani

By MENASource

ISIS fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab in Arabic), activists said Thursday, as US-led air strikes—which the United States admits are insufficient without ground support—failed to halt their advance and Turkish forces nearby looked on without intervening.

MENASource

Oct 9, 2014

Cairo Court to Consider Facebook, Twitter Ban in Egypt

A Cairo administrative court announced on Thursday that it will hear a lawsuit calling for a ban in Egypt on Facebook and Twitter. The first session in the trial will take place on November 18. The lawsuit, filed by lawyer Mohamed Hamed Salem, calls for the social networking sites to be blocked until they obtain […]

North Africa

MENASource

Oct 9, 2014

Top News: Brotherhood Students Announce Protests at Al-Azhar

By EgyptSource

Al-Azhar University Brotherhood students announced on Thursday that they would begin a new round of protests, coinciding with the start of the new school year on Saturday.

MENASource

Oct 9, 2014

Kobani, Kurds, Turks, and Airstrikes: A Fine Kettle Of Fish

By Frederic C. Hof

Although the expression “a fine kettle of fish” has been around for hundreds of years to characterize a confused, awkward, messy, and even intractable situation, it was revived in the first half of the 20th century by comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

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