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SyriaSource

Jan 27, 2016

Top News: January 27, 2016

By SyriaSource

–Syria peace talks hinge on envoy’s answers–Kurdish PYD not invited to peace talks in Geneva–Syrian government troops recapture key southern town–Turkey’s human rights environment deteriorated in 2015, says HRW

Syria

MENASource

Jan 27, 2016

The Blasphemy Law is Here to Stay

By Jayson Casper

Among the many battlegrounds between liberal and conservative visions for Egypt is the blasphemy law, with Islam al-Beheiry and Fatima Naoot its latest victims.

North Africa

MENASource

Jan 27, 2016

Top News: Egypt’s Top Auditor Geneina Requests New Judge in Contempt of Judiciary Case

By EgyptSource

The head of Egypt’s official corruption watchdog Hisham Geneina has requested a new judge to oversee a probe against him over accusations, dating back to 2014, of contempt of the judiciary and insulting a senior judge. The request by Geneina, the head of the Central Auditing Organization (CAO), alleges a lack of impartiality on the […]

MENASource

Jan 27, 2016

Top News: Kurdish PYD not invited to peace talks in Geneva

By MENASource

Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) officials will not be invited to peace talks in Geneva, where negotiations for the opposition will be led by a Saudi-backed opposition group, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday.

MENASource

Jan 27, 2016

Five Years On: Rights and Freedoms

By Elissa Miller

Over the past five years, local and international rights organizations have criticized an increasingly restrictive climate in Egypt that has severely limited street protests, called into question media freedom, and seen a tightening grip on civil society organizations. Successive governments have done little to address grievances, many of which were key demands of the January […]

North Africa

UkraineAlert

Jan 27, 2016

Making Sense of Minsk: Decentralization, Special Status, and Federalism

By Paul Niland

Decentralization, special status, and federalism. These terms are three different things, although they are often mistakenly substituted one for another, and some people think one term means another in Ukraine today. The decentralization debate is heating up again as Ukraine faces a legal deadline to pass a constitutional amendment that gives the so-called Donetsk People’s […]

Russia Ukraine

MENASource

Jan 27, 2016

EconSource: Iraq Says Would Consider Deal on Global Oil Cuts

By EconSource

Iraqi Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari has said that Iraq is willing to take part in emergency meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in order to lift oil prices.

MENASource

Jan 26, 2016

Photo Essay: What Happened in Tahrir Square on January 25, 2016

By Jonathan Rashad

Five years ago, thousands of Egyptians took to the streets in mass protest. Their chants of “Bread, freedom, and social justice” filled Tahrir Square. The date they chose was no coincidence. January 25 marked national police day, and a key demand of the protests was an end to police brutality in Egypt. Eighteen days later, […]

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Jan 26, 2016

Libya: The Chaos Continues

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Tobruk-based assembly puts a question mark over unity government’s fate, says Atlantic Council’s Karim Mezran Libya’s internationally recognized parliament on January 25 rejected a unity government proposed under a UN-backed plan out of concern that it was too large, dealing a setback to efforts to end a period of uncertainty that has allowed the Islamic […]

Libya

SyriaSource

Jan 26, 2016

Top News: January 26, 2016

By SyriaSource

– Deadly blasts kill 20 in Syrian city ahead of peace talks– Syria opposition meets in Riyadh, casts doubt on talks– Russian air strikes have transformed situation in Syria– Kurds accuse Syria pro-regime militia of bombings– Russia, Turkey dispute over PYD inclusion at peace talks– Search for US workers kidnapped in Baghdad focuses on Sadr […]

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