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UkraineAlert

Mar 16, 2016

Putin’s Crimea Is No Vacation

By Melinda Haring and Alina Polyakova

Two years ago on March 16, Crimeans voted in a sham referendum for Russia to annex Crimea. Has life improved for the approximately two million people who live there?  Not at all. On every measure, from the economy to its treatment of minorities, the beautiful peninsula has become a shell of what it once was. […]

Russia Ukraine

MENASource

Mar 16, 2016

Retaking Mosul: ISIS and Human Shields

By Sahr Muhammedally

Talks about retaking Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS)—a city of 1 million people—are once again in the news. But Iraqi and US military planners need to think creatively about how best to minimize civilian harm in what is anticipated to be a long and fierce urban campaign where ISIS fighters are likely to be […]

Iraq

New Atlanticist

Mar 16, 2016

Keeping the Focus on the Democratic Republic of the Congo

By Mitch Hulse

The Obama administration must pay closer attention to developments in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where President Joseph Kabila is poised to extend his term in violation of constitutional limits, according to Herman J. Cohen, a former US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. “I fear that the United […]

South & Central Africa

New Atlanticist

Mar 16, 2016

LGBT Rights at the Core of US Human Rights Agenda, says US Special Envoy Berry

By Jonathan Gass

LGBTI rights sit at the very core of the United States’ human rights agenda, and diplomacy, in its many forms, “is an essential tool as we find a path towards greater inclusion,” according to Randy W. Berry, the US State Department’s first-ever Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons. Since the United States […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 16, 2016

Russian Opposition Battles Kremlin Crackdown, Western Apathy

By Mikaila Altenbern

Russian opposition groups will continue to face threats and violence if Western powers remain on the sidelines amid a Kremlin crackdown on media and democratic processes, according to opposition actors. “I think there is nothing better that they would like us to do than to hide, to run away, to stop doing what we’re doing,” […]

Russia

New Atlanticist

Mar 16, 2016

Silencing Voices of Russian Opposition

By Eurasia Center

Russian opposition groups will continue to face threats and violence if Western powers remain on the sidelines amid a Kremlin crackdown on media and democratic processes, according to opposition actors. “I think there is nothing better that they would like us to do than to hide, to run away, to stop doing what we’re doing,” […]

Russia

SyriaSource

Mar 16, 2016

Top News: March 16, 2016

By SyriaSource

– Syrian Kurds say they will declare federal region in Syria– Russia withdraws almost half of Syria strike force– UN envoy to meet pro-Russia Syrian opposition group at talks– Kerry, Putin to discuss Syria as Russia seeks to bolster influence– Denmark’s TV2 channel opens office in Syrian capital

Syria

MENASource

Mar 16, 2016

Top News: Syrian Kurds say they will declare federal region in Syria

By MENASource

The main Syrian Kurdish group, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), announced plans Wednesday to declare a federal region in northern Syria, a model it hopes can be applied to the entire country. The idea was promptly dismissed by Turkey and also the Syrian government team at UN-brokered peace talks underway in Geneva.

MENASource

Mar 16, 2016

EconSource: Egypt Central Bank Mounts War on Black Market

By EconSource

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) offered $1.5 billion to local lenders in an exceptional auction today to cover importers’ debts.

MENASource

Mar 16, 2016

Turkey’s Presidential Politics: The Far Right’s Collapse and the Kurdish Left’s Prosecution

By Aaron Stein

On March 13, two suicide bombers detonated a car bomb at a major transit hub in Ankara’s Kızılay neighborhood, killing 37 and injuring more than 100 civilians. This latest attack has upended Turkish politics, prompting Turkish President Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan to call for the imposition of strong anti-terror laws intended to punish those that support […]

Turkey
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