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US AN/TPQ-36 radar system, April 20, 1996

NATOSource

Oct 22, 2015

US to Ship Modified Radar Systems to Ukraine

By Julian E. Barnes and Gordon Lubold, Wall Street Journal

Advanced radar systems being shipped to Ukraine to counter artillery strikes by pro-Russia separatists have been modified to prevent them from peering into Russia, according to U.S. officials.

Russia Ukraine

Trade in Action

Oct 22, 2015

TTIP & Trade Action – October 21

By Global Business & Economics Program

European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom speaks with a variety of leaders from trade unions, business associations, nonprofit groups, and other civil society organizations at an open dialogue to discuss the European Commission’s Trade for All strategy earlier this week. (Photo credit: European Commission) This Week’s Trade Highlights It’s TTIP Week! This week, representatives from both sides of the […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

MENASource

Oct 22, 2015

MENASource Podcast: Russia’s Intervention in Syria

By Aaron Stein and Faysal Itani

For the past three and a half weeks, the Russian Air Force and a handful of military advisers have been striking rebel held positions in Syria. The bulk of the airstrikes are concentrated along the M5 highway near the cities of Homs and Hama.

Russia Syria

MENASource

Oct 22, 2015

EconSource: Fitch says Stable Turkish Government Could Help Reforms, Growth

By EconSource

Fitch Ratings said in a statement on Thursday that the formation of a stable government following Turkey’s parliamentary election on November 1 could benefit the implementation of structural reforms.

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Oct. 15, 2015

NATOSource

Oct 21, 2015

Ash Carter Calls on Congress to End Defense Budget Turbulence

By Ash Carter, Wall Street Journal

For the seventh year in a row, Congress has failed to pass a defense appropriations bill in time to start the fiscal year.

United States and Canada

SyriaSource

Oct 21, 2015

Assad the Prop

By Frederic C. Hof

Russian President Vladimir Putin is orchestrating the performance of his life, using Syria as the stage on which he proclaims Moscow’s reemergence as the third Rome and drives a spike into what he describes as Washington’s democratization and regime change jihad.  Having declared war on the Islamic State (ISIL, ISIS, or Daesh) in Syria, he […]

Syria

Emerging Defense Challenges

Oct 21, 2015

‘We Need a Freakin’ Budget’

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Congressman Adam Smith says cap-free defense budget needed to address global challenges The Pentagon needs a long-term budget that is free of caps if it is to address important global threats, including from Islamist militants, Russia, and China, a senior Democratic lawmaker said on Oct. 21. “We need a freakin’ budget,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), […]

Iran Russia

MENASource

Oct 21, 2015

Despite Concessions Nour Party Loses Out in Parliamentary Elections

By Abdelrahman Youssef

A new Egyptian parliamentary election cycle is underway. With it, Egypt’s Nour Party—the political arm of the Alexandria-based Salafist Call movement—is facing one of the most difficult tests it has encountered since the party’s founding in June 2011. Preliminary results indicate that the party is failing that test. 

Elections North Africa

SyriaSource

Oct 21, 2015

Top News: Assad meets with Putin in Moscow

By Syria Source

President Bashar al-Assad has traveled to Moscow in his first known trip abroad since war broke out in Syria in 2011, meeting his strongest ally Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The two leaders stressed that military operations in Syria, in which Moscow is the latest and most powerful addition, must lead to a political process. Turkish […]

Syria
Russian warship celebrating Navy Day, July 26, 2015

NATOSource

Oct 21, 2015

Russia’s Syria Strategy Poses Challenge to NATO in Mediterranean

By Sam Jones, Financial Times

Russia’s military intervention in Syria is serving as a broader announcement of Moscow’s renewed determination to hold sway in the Middle East.

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