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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 […]

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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 […]

Syria
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 […]

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