MENASource

As the MENA region continues to be the epicenter of news headlines, the Atlantic Council’s MENASource is a hub for thought-provoking and hard-hitting analyses about the latest trends, ideas, and debates. This online publication provides fast reactions and in-depth commentary on breaking news and key regional topics by a diverse team of experts and contributors.

MENASource brings you up-close to a region at the epicenter of geo-political headlines. It is the Atlantic Council’s hub for in-depth commentary about breaking news, key topics, and trends from our team of experts on the Middle East and North Africa.

The views expressed in MENASource are solely those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the Atlantic Council, its staff, or its supporters.

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Top News: Ashton in Cairo to Press for Brotherhood Reconciliation

MENASource
Mar 26, 2026

As Iran attacks, the US should provide air defense for Iraqi Kurdistan

Washington faces a choice: Continue to defer to Baghdad’s procedural objections while Iran conducts unimpeded strikes on Kurdish territory or acknowledge the strategic reality and take decisive action.

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Top News: Ashton in Cairo to Press for Brotherhood Reconciliation

MENASource
Mar 17, 2026

A crisis in Egypt could be a warning sign for the global economy 

By
Khalid Azim

Market watchers should keep an eye on Egypt as an oil shock could cause financial turmoil.

Economy & Business
International Financial Institutions

Top News: Ashton in Cairo to Press for Brotherhood Reconciliation

MENASource
Mar 11, 2026

Three lessons from Libya for the war in Iran

By
Frank Talbot

Any outside power using force to attain a political outcome must define the end state it seeks, align coalition partners around a shared strategy, and establish credible escalation controls.

Conflict
Iran

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Oct 2, 2013

Top News: Ashton in Cairo to Press for Brotherhood Reconciliation

By EgyptSource

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is scheduled to meet with a wide range of high-ranking government and public officials during this week, according to a statement from the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

MENASource

Oct 2, 2013

Top News: Syria’s Central Bank Report Gives Rare Glimpse into Wartime Finances

By MENASource

Syria’s foreign reserves crashed by more than a third in 2011, figures published by the central bank showed, giving a rare glimpse into the war-stricken country’s finances.

MENASource

Oct 1, 2013

Tamarod: A Mild Rebellion

By Rana Muhammad Taha

In late April, a group of unknown young Egyptian men announced the formation of a campaign against former Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi and his regime. Today, that same group, Tamarod, or ‘Rebel,’ is one of the military-backed interim regime’s most ardent supporters.

North Africa

MENASource

Oct 1, 2013

Top News: Egypt Muslim Brotherhood Leader Sentenced to Ten Years in Military Trial

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s Suez military court sentenced on Monday Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Mongey to ten years of imprisonment on charges of inciting violence and vandalizing military property in August.

MENASource

Oct 1, 2013

Not My Brotherhood’s Keeper: The Fallacy of Crushing Egypt’s Chief Islamist Group

By Amro Ali

By the time philosopher Hannah Arendt penned the words in her 1970 work On Violence: “The means used to achieve political goals are more often than not of greater relevance to the future world than the intended goals,” a generation of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood transitioning into the Anwar Sadat era were reeling from the “means” […]

North Africa

MENASource

Oct 1, 2013

Top News: Syrian Jihadists Wreak Havoc as Violence Spreads into Iraq

By MENASource

Militant groups fighting to establish an Islamic state in Syria are increasingly active in Iraq, dragging the wider region into conflict.

MENASource

Oct 1, 2013

Decentralization in Libya

By Duncan Pickard

Questions of decentralization pervade policy debates in Libya. After decades of harsh and highly centralized rule under Muammar Qaddafi, policymakers, scholars, and civil-society activists are contemplating how to unpack state authority to empower cities and regional development.

Libya

MENASource

Sep 30, 2013

Syria: Getting Past the Chemicals

By Frederic C. Hof

The Obama administration and its Secretary of State take pride in achieving, with the cooperation of Russia, a chemical weapons framework agreement and a supporting United Nations Security Council resolution.

Syria

MENASource

Sep 30, 2013

Top News: FJP Deputy Sets Conditions for Dialogue; Presidential Advisor to Meet with Former MB Members

By EgyptSource

In a video aired by Al Jazeera on Sunday, Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Vice President Essam al-Erian has called for dialogue on condition that those “who led the coup” admit their wrong doings and reinstate deposed President Mohamed Morsi.

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 30, 2013

Top News: Tunisia’s Governing Islamists to Step Down

By MENASource

Tunisia’s Islamist-led government agreed on Saturday to resign after talks with secular foes to form a caretaker administration and prepare for elections to safeguard the democratic transition in the country where the Arab Spring uprisings began.

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