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Top News: Sisi, Fahmy in Official Visit to Russia

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Jan 14, 2026

Voices from Iran: As rejection of government reaches all-time high, Iranians also wary of foreign intervention

If Trump is serious about peace, stability, and a lasting legacy, the path forward does not run through air strikes or transactional deals with a failing theocracy.

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Top News: Sisi, Fahmy in Official Visit to Russia

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Jan 28, 2026

Trump’s National Security Strategy doesn’t downgrade the Middle East, it redefines it

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Kristian Alexander

Trump’s strategy is a sophisticated refinement of “America First.” For the Gulf, the implications are significant, but manageable.

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National Security

Top News: Sisi, Fahmy in Official Visit to Russia

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Jan 13, 2026

Eight questions (and expert answers) on the SDF’s withdrawal from Syria’s Aleppo

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Atlantic Council experts

Our experts unpack why violence erupted, what it means for Kurdish safety and integration in Syria, and how Washington is engaging.

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Feb 12, 2014

Top News: Sisi, Fahmy in Official Visit to Russia

By EgyptSource

Egyptian army chief and defense minister Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is on an official visit to Russia, army spokesperson Ahmed Ali has stated. Sisi is accompanied by Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy in a visit that is a “response to the historic visit of their Russian counterparts to Egypt last November.” They will discuss cooperation between the two countries […]

MENASource

Feb 12, 2014

Dispatch: A Critical Time for Libya

By Karim Mezran

The February 7 deadline for the General National Congress (GNC) has passed with news trickling in of a handful of legislators resigning in protest but no significant movement to shake the country out of its political paralysis and regenerate momentum for its transition to democracy. The streets, however, are grumbling as political maneuvers continue.

Libya

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Feb 12, 2014

EconSource Headlines- February 12, 2014

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Feb 11, 2014

A Threefold Regression of Knowledge, Information and Rational Thought

By Amr Hamzawy

The situation in Egypt since July 2013 has given rise to many negative phenomena, which defenders of democracy must dismantle, contain, confront or resist. One of the most significant of these phenomena has been a threefold regression: a regression in the value of knowledge, the declining importance of information and the marginalization of rational thought […]

North Africa

MENASource

Feb 11, 2014

Top News: Regime Loyalists Seethe Over UN Aid Operation For Rebel Area

By MENASource

Regime loyalists in Homs voiced fury over a UN humanitarian relief mission for a rebel-held enclave in their city, accusing the organization of bias against minorities who support President Bashar al-Assad.

MENASource

Feb 11, 2014

In Homs, UN Convoy Meets Syria’s Total War

By Alex Simon

By Syrian standards, the violence in the Old City of Homs this weekend was nothing out of the ordinary. Fourteen were killed and dozens injured as mortar shells and sniper fire targeted international vehicles seeking to evacuate civilians and deliver aid to thirteen neighborhoods that have been under government siege for nearly a year and […]

Syria

MENASource

Feb 11, 2014

Top News: In Leaked Recording, Morsi Says Protests “Useless”

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi says protests by his supporters and the violent crackdown against them are “useless” in a recording of a private conversation with one of his lawyers that was leaked by security authorities eager to show the Islamist leader in a less defiant posture. Morsi also asked his lawyer, Mohammed Salim el-Awa, for money […]

MENASource

Feb 11, 2014

EconSource Headlines- February 11, 2014

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

MENASource

Feb 10, 2014

YemenSource | Six Regions Approved For Federal Transition

By YemenSource

The Regions Committee assembled by President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi has agreed on six regions for Yemen’s federated state.

Yemen

MENASource

Feb 10, 2014

Top News: Six hundred flee Homs in aid convoy; Men under fifty-five enter police custody

By MENASource

Six hundred people left the besieged ruins of rebel-held central Homs on Sunday, escaping more than a year of hunger and deprivation caused by one of the most protracted blockades of the conflict.

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