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Aug 26, 2014

Top News: Egypt Denies Carrying Out Tripoli Airstrikes, Announces Initiative with Libya

By EgyptSource

  US officials said on Monday that Egypt and the United Arab Emirates were responsible for carrying out two series of air strikes in the past week on armed Islamist factions in Tripoli, Libya.

MENASource

Aug 26, 2014

Egypt’s Options in Dealing with the Libyan Crisis (Part I)

By Nader Bakkar

Relations between Cairo and Tripoli went through bouts of political volatility at the beginning of ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s rule before improving and taking on a more conciliatory nature during the last two decades under Mubarak and Muammar Qaddafi. With the exception of Qaddafi’s 1977 attempted incursion on the border between the two countries, the […]

North Africa

MENASource

Aug 26, 2014

EconSource: ESCWA–The Libyan Conflict and its Impact on Egypt and Tunisia

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Aug 26, 2014

EconSource: Donor Pledges for Yemen Increase to $8.2 Billion

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Aug 25, 2014

Top News: Libya in New Crisis as Islamist ‘Terrorists’ Seize Airport

By MENASource

Islamist militias openly challenged the legitimacy of the Libyan parliament after announcing their seizure of Tripoli airport, plunging Libya into a deeper political crisis. The militias said the House of Representatives had lost its legitimacy. The parliament fired back, calling the groups “terrorists” and asserting that it will deal with the “legitimate target” through regular […]

MENASource

Aug 25, 2014

Top News: North African Ministers in Cairo for Libya Crisis Talks

By EgyptSource

  Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met early Monday with his Libyan, Algerian, and Tunisian counterparts for talks on the situation in Libya.

MENASource

Aug 25, 2014

The Week in Egypt [August 25, 2014]

By Elissa Miller

Catch up on the latest out of Egypt every week, with analysis, news updates, photos, videos, and more.

North Africa

MENASource

Aug 22, 2014

Can Assad Help With ISIS?

By Frederic C. Hof

With Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel telling a Pentagon press conference that “all options are on the table” regarding air strikes in Syria on the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Martin Dempsey saying that ISIS cannot be defeated militarily without addressing its presence in Syria, […]

Syria

MENASource

Aug 22, 2014

Top News: US Joint Chiefs Says Raiding Syria Is Key to Halting ISIS

By MENASource

  The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS, or IS) cannot be defeated unless the United States or its partners take on the group inside Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday. “This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated,” […]

MENASource

Aug 22, 2014

Top News: NCHR Says Human Rights Watch Report is Deliberately Misleading

By EgyptSource

  The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) said in a statement Friday that remarks made in a recent report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on the dispersal of the pro-Morsi Raba’a al-Adeweya and Nahda sit-ins last year violate the professional and ethical standards of research.