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NATO Global Hawk

NATOSource

Jan 26, 2016

NATO’s Five Global Hawk Drones Due in Sicily by Year’s End

By Tom Kington, Defense News

NATO is due to have all five of its Global Hawks delivered by year end to a Sicilian air base where 600 personnel will keep them flying, officials said

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MENASource

Jan 26, 2016

Top News: New Libya unity government to be proposed within ten days

By MENASource

A revamped Libyan unity government will be proposed within ten days, an official said Tuesday, after the eastern House of Representatives rejected an initial lineup proposed by the Presidency Council.

MENASource

Jan 26, 2016

Top News: Egyptian Writer Fatima Naoot Sentenced to Three Years in Jail for “Contempt of Religion”

By EgyptSource

Writer Fatima Naoot was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison and fined EGP20,000 after being found guilty of contempt of religion, the second public figure to receive a jail term in less than a month for charges related to blasphemy. The jail sentence is effective immediately, meaning the ex-parliamentary candidate is set to […]

MENASource

Jan 26, 2016

EconSource: Egypt Raises Cap on Forex Deposits for Imports of Essential Goods

By EconSource

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said Tuesday it would raise its cap on foreign currency deposits to $250,000 a month for imports of food, capital machinery, manufacturing components, and medicines.

MENASource

Jan 26, 2016

The YPG-PKK connection

By Aaron Stein and Michelle Foley

In mid-July 2012, the Syrian government withdrew its forces from a large amount of territory along the Turkish border. This move allowed the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a Kurdish nationalist group linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)—a US- and Turkish-designated terrorist group—to take administrative and military control over the self-declared cantons of Efrin, Kobani […]

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UkraineAlert

Jan 26, 2016

Not So Fast, Mr. Inozemtsev

By John E. Herbst

Responding to an article that Ambassadors Steven Pifer, William Taylor, and I wrote in The New York Times advocating greater US and EU assistance to Ukraine, Vladislav Inozemtsev wrote a provocative article January 19 in which he makes the case that Kyiv should cede the occupied territories of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), Luhansk People’s […]

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MENASource

Jan 25, 2016

Five Years On: Egypt’s International Relations

By Elissa Miller

US-Egypt ties and Egypt’s ties with the Gulf witnessed the most significant shifts in Egypt’s foreign relations in the past five years. US-Egypt relations were strained as the Obama administration placed US military and economic aid to Egypt on hold, while in the Gulf, a surge of support in the wake of the ouster of former president Mohamed […]

North Africa

UkraineAlert

Jan 25, 2016

Ukrainians Need to Stop Waiting for Their White Knight

By Sergii Leshchenko

My source leaned forward and said in a muffled voice: “The latest news is that grey cardinal Igor Kononenko’s men have been placed inside Ukrainian Railways, and Member of Parliament Sergei Fayermak of the People’s Front is now in charge of all the seaports.” This conversation with a government insider took place in the middle […]

Ukraine

UkraineAlert

Jan 25, 2016

Ukraine’s Economic Revival Starting in the West

By James Brooke

What do coastal China, northern Mexico, and western Ukraine have in common? After Beijing dropped Maoist economics in the 1970s, low-wage China began to thrive. The economic boom started with the coast, the area closest to the Pacific coast ports of Canada and the United States, with its access to a huge market. Low-wage northern […]

European Union International Organizations

UkraineAlert

Jan 25, 2016

Did Ukraine’s Cyberattacks Originate in Russia?

By Cristina Maza

As Ukraine grapples with a plethora of challenges, including endemic corruption and trade disputes with Russia, cyberattacks against the country’s critical infrastructure can now be added to the list of issues. In late December, Ukraine experienced what may have been the world’s first blackout caused by a cyberattack. While the blackout was short-lived, it affected […]

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