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Sep 9, 2014

The Islamic State: First the Strategy, Then What?

By Frederic C. Hof

Not long ago President Barack Obama took some heat for committing truth: for saying that a strategy was not yet in place to counter the pseudo-Islamic, terrorist-criminal phenomenon calling itself the “Islamic State:” a murderous organization dominating pieces of Iraq and Syria, adding up in size to New England.

Syria

MENASource

Sep 9, 2014

Top News: Iraqi Parliament Approves New Government

By MENASource

Iraq’s parliament approved a new government headed by Haider al-Abadi as prime minister on Monday night, in a bid to rescue Iraq from collapse, with sectarianism and Arab-Kurdish tensions on the rise. Abadi, a Shi’ite Islamist, included members of Iraq’s Shi’ite majority and its Kurdish and Sunni minorities in his cabinet as he started his […]

MENASource

Sep 9, 2014

Top News: Beltagy and Hegazy Sentenced to Twenty Years in Prison

By EgyptSource

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed al-Beltagy and Islamist preacher Safwat Hegazy to twenty years in prison. They received ten years in a maximum security prison for the alleged torture of two policemen during the Raba’a al-Adaweya sit-in, and another ten years each on charges of joining and managing an illegal organization.

MENASource

Sep 9, 2014

EconSource: Struggling Tunisia Appeals to World for Investment

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Sep 8, 2014

Top News: Riot Police Force Houthi Protesters Off Airport Road; Hadi Fires Head of Special Forces

By MENASource

Yemeni riot police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse Houthi protesters blocking the road between the capital and Yemen’s main airport on Sunday, in an escalation of weeks of protests. Warplanes also bombed armed Houthi rebels in al-Jawf province, killing thirteen, according to government sources.

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Sep 8, 2014

Top News: Egypt Orders Arrest of Men over ‘Gay Marriage’ Video; Forensics Release Test Results

By EgyptSource

Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat ordered Saturday nine men suspected of participating in an alleged same-sex wedding party to be held in preventative detention and examined by the forensics department

MENASource

Sep 8, 2014

EconSource: Egypt Needs $12 Billion in Next 5 Years to Address Electricity Crisis

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Sep 8, 2014

The Hunger Strike

By Amr Hamzawy

The hunger strike is a final means by which those held in pre-trial detention can call for their freedom, an end to their injustices, and guarantees of due process and a fair trial in their cases. It is a means for them to demand that arbitrary restrictions imposed on them are lifted, or that they […]

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 5, 2014

Top News: US Confirms Joint Alliance to Counter ISIS Militants

By MENASource

The United States said on Friday it was forming a “core coalition” to battle Islamic State of Iraq and al-sham (ISIS) militants in Iraq, calling for broad support from allies and partners but ruling out committing ground forces. President Barack Obama sought to use a NATO summit in Wales to enlist allied support in fighting the Islamist […]

MENASource

Sep 5, 2014

Top News: NCHR Demands Medical Supervision of Hunger-Striking Activists

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) called for allowing hunger-strike activists Ahmed Douma and Mohamed Abdel Rahman Nouby medical supervision at an external hospital following the deterioration of their medical condition.