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Top News: Al-Jazeera English Journalists Moved to Lower Security Detention

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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: Al-Jazeera English Journalists Moved to Lower Security Detention

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Jan 28, 2026

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

By
Kristian Alexander

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

Middle East
National Security

Top News: Al-Jazeera English Journalists Moved to Lower Security Detention

MENASource
Jan 13, 2026

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

By
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 6, 2014

Top News: Al-Jazeera English Journalists Moved to Lower Security Detention

By EgyptSource

The family of detained Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy said on Wednesday that he and his two colleagues were moved to a lower security section of the Tora prison complex.  “It is confirmed that Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed are now in a lower security prison held together in the same cell,” said Fahmy’s […]

MENASource

Feb 6, 2014

EconSource Headlines- February 6, 2014

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Feb 6, 2014

Is the Gulf Rethinking Egypt’s Presidency?

By MENASource

Gulf countries have thrown their weight enthusiastically behind Egypt’s military-backed government, but recent signals indicate hesitation over the new Egyptian Field Marshal General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s ascension to the presidency.

North Africa

MENASource

Feb 5, 2014

Egypt’s Presidential Elections: From the Outside Looking In [Part II]

By Nader Bakkar

Despite personal convictions about holding presidential elections first, mentioned in the first part of this article, the nomination of two military candidates, in Minister of Defense Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and former Chief of Staff Sami Anan, has become a foregone conclusion. (At least at the time of writing.) While some candidates may already have garnered […]

Elections
North Africa

MENASource

Feb 5, 2014

Top News: Regime Hits Mosque With Barrel Bomb; Refugees, Fleeing Bombs, Stuck At Turkish Border

By MENASource

Men pull a girl from the rubble and haul her onto a dirty sheet of plastic, while another child, coated in white dust save for a red streak of blood from his nose, lies with his crushed leg dangling off a gurney—the grisly aftermath from the dropping of a crude “barrel bomb” by Syrian forces […]

MENASource

Feb 5, 2014

Top News: Morsi ‘Presidential Palace’ Trial Adjourned to March 1

By EgyptSource

During its fifth hearing, the trial of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and fourteen co-defendants has been adjourned until March 1. Morsi, his presidential aides and senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders are accused of inciting the murder and torture of opposition protesters outside the presidential palace in December 2012. Civil rights lawyers also requested that Defense Minister Abdel […]

MENASource

Feb 5, 2014

Dispatch: Deepening Polarization in Libya, No Agreement in Sight

By Karim Mezran

More than two years since Libyans and international forces overthrew longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi, Libya suffers from fragmentation as competing forces vie to fill the power vacuum. An emerging and worrying trend of political blocs within the General National Congress (GNC) forming alliances with certain militia groups—creating new and divisive power centers—threatens to derail the […]

Libya

MENASource

Feb 5, 2014

Syria: Barrel Bombs On Aleppo

By Frederic C. Hof

Each and every day that the barrel-bombing of Aleppo continues, the Asad regime reminds the world of its true colors. It is the latest barbaric act of a regime that has committed organized, wholesale torture, used chemical weapons, and is starving whole communities by blocking delivery of food to Syrian civilians in urgent need.

Syria

MENASource

Feb 4, 2014

Top News: Clashes in Tunisia Leave Eight Dead

By MENASource

 On Monday, police surrounded a house in Raoued (a northern suburb of Tunis) in an attempt to capture members of the hardline Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia who were taking refuge there. Washington has designated this group as a terrorist organization.

MENASource

Feb 4, 2014

Top News: Egypt Summons Qatar’s Chargé d’Affaires over Extraditions

By EgyptSource

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Qatari chargé d’affaires on Tuesday to demand that Qatar “stop the media campaigns” against Egypt, and to hand over a number of fugitives currently facing trial. 

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