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Why the US Should Continue Funding Democracy and Governance Programs in Iraq

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Sep 10, 2025

Ten questions (and expert answers) on Operation Inherent Resolve’s end in Iraq

This new frontier in the US-Iraq relationship leaves many opportunities, challenges and unknowns. Our experts unpack it all.

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Why the US Should Continue Funding Democracy and Governance Programs in Iraq

MENASource
Sep 8, 2025

Haftar’s long game: Dynastic power and diplomatic leverage in Libya

By
Karim Mezran and Dario Cristiani

Haftar may be shaping not only the current political landscape, but is also positioning himself—and his family—for long-term influence.

Libya
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Why the US Should Continue Funding Democracy and Governance Programs in Iraq

MENASource
Aug 29, 2025

Is the cautious China-Iran military cooperation at a turning point?

By
Jean-Loup Samaan

With a new war between Iran and Israel still an immediate threat, China might need to ask itself: Is cooperation with Iran worth risking its diplomacy model in the Gulf?

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Apr 29, 2014

Why the US Should Continue Funding Democracy and Governance Programs in Iraq

By Beza Tesfaye

While US policymakers shift away from Iraq, recent events threaten to plunge that country into a new civil war. Sectarian conflict has become a source of chronic tragedy: So far this year, terrorist attacks and bombings have killed over 2,000 civilians. As Iraqis head to the polls in the first election to be held since […]

Iraq

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

Top News: Explosions Kill Forty-Five in Homs; Fourteen Dead, Eighty-Six Injured in Damascus

By MENASource

Mortar shells slammed into a religious school campus in central Damascus on Tuesday, killing at least fourteen people and wounding eighty-six. The school, an Islamic law center where students from Syria and abroad study religious jurisprudence, taught students as young as fourteen, but it was not immediately clear if there were children among the dead or wounded. […]

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

Top News: Egyptian and International Groups Condemn Minya Death Sentences

By EgyptSource

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy has called for protests against the death sentences passed against 683 people in Minya on Monday. In a protest against the death sentences in Damietta, a man was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Monday.

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

YemenSource | New NDC Implementation Panel Created

By YemenSource

President Hadi created a new panel to oversee implementation of the outcomes and conclusions of the National Dialogue Conference (NDC). This panel will be comprised of eighty-two delegates who participated in the NDC. The formation of the panel was mandated by the concluding document of the Dialogue, though it remains unclear what specific powers, scope, […]

Yemen

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

EconSource: Tunisia’s currency reserves fall to record low

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

Syria: Pull Together Resources, Rationalize the Response

By Frederic C. Hof

In a recent panel discussion conducted under Chatham House rules, a United States Senator explained the essence of an absent US leadership role in bringing about political transition in Syria: “to pull together the resources and rationalize the response.”

Syria

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

Egypt’s Politicized Judiciary Undermining Rule of Law

By MENASource

Yesterday’s mass death sentence for supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi by a local judge in Egypt sparked an uproar among Egyptian activists and international observers. Another judge also banned the April 6 Youth Movement, a key revolutionary actor in the January 2011 uprising.

North Africa

MENASource

Apr 28, 2014

Proven Guilty: Egypt’s Judiciary and the Undermining of Democracy

By Ryan J. Suto

Through the recent spate of death sentence rulings and an apparent unwillingness to challenge the interim government, Egypt’s judiciary has positioned itself as a close ally to the regime, undermining any illusion of impartiality. But how did Egypt’s judiciary get to such a perilous state, and what does this mean for Egypt’s prospects for democracy?

North Africa

MENASource

Apr 28, 2014

Top News: Egypt Court Sentences 683 Morsi Supporters, Brotherhood Supreme Guide to Death

By MENASource

A court in Minya sentenced 683 supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi to death on Monday. The Islamist group’s Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie was among the defendants found guilty of attacking Adawa police station and killing a police officer, Mamdouh Kotb Mohamed Kotb following the dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-ins at Raba’a and Nahda squares.

MENASource

Apr 28, 2014

Top News: Egypt Courts Ban April 6; Sentence 683 Morsi Supporters to Death

By EgyptSource

The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters banned the activities of the April 6 Youth Movement on Monday. Lawyer Ashraf Saeed, who filed the lawsuit against the group, accused it of espionage and defaming the Egyptian state. In an official document released after the ruling, the court did not comment on the specific accusations made against […]

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