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Mar 17, 2014

Top News: US Navy SEALS board tanker carrying oil from Libya rebel port

By MENASource

US special forces have seized a tanker that fled with a cargo of oil from a Libyan port, the US Department of Defense said on Monday, halting an attempt by rebels to sell petroleum on the global market.

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Mar 17, 2014

Top News: Six Military Conscripts Shot Dead Near Cairo

By EgyptSource

Gunmen shot dead six army officers near Cairo on Saturday, the second attack on Egyptian security forces in three days that the military has blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood of deposed President Mohamed Morsi.

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Mar 17, 2014

The Week in Egypt [March 17, 2014]

By Daniel Stoker

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

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Mar 17, 2014

Yesterday an Enemy, Today a Friend?

By Amira Mikhail

The nuanced, complicated-nature, and symbolic defeat of a theological state that came with June 30 has left most Christians in Egypt ironically and dangerously excited, hopeful, and confident in the current government and more precisely, Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

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Mar 17, 2014

Opportunity Arises to Test a New US Strategy in Syria

By Faysal Itani

Residents of Douma, a rebel-held city of 350,000 in the Ghouta suburbs east of Damascus, have elected a new civilian council. Against great odds—August 2013 chemical weapons attacks, and an ongoing regime siege—a civic culture has somehow survived in Douma.

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Mar 14, 2014

Top News: Syria’s Confirmed Death Toll Exceeds 146,000 as Fourth Year Begins

By MENASource

More than 146,000 people, over a third of them civilians, have been killed in Syria’s uprising-turned-civil war which enters its fourth year this month, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday.

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Mar 14, 2014

Top News: Egypt Summons European Envoys over Human Rights Statement

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s foreign affairs ministry has summoned the envoys of European countries that sent a joint statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Friday condemning Egypt’s recent crackdown on demonstrators and political dissent.

MENASource

Mar 14, 2014

EconSource Headlines- March 14, 2014

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Mar 14, 2014

Khan Explains Arab Spring Economics

By MENASource

Following the release of The Economic Consequences of the Arab Spring, Mohsin Khan, senior fellow with the Rafik Hariri Middle East Center, examines the impact of social unrest and uncertainty over the past three years. He notes how politics dominates economic policy-making, which could have a negative impact for long term growth, but observes that the […]

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Mar 13, 2014

Egypt’s Prospects for Economic Growth [Video]

By EgyptSource

Following the release of The Economic Consequences of the Arab Spring, Mohsin Khan, senior fellow with the Rafik Hariri Middle East Center, speaks on Egypt’s prospects for economic growth. Khan gives a somewhat optimistic outlook for Egypt’s economic growth due to financing coming from the Gulf countries, which Khan says, is helping the nation stabilize its […]

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