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New Atlanticist

Sep 3, 2015

Europe Grapples with the Migrant Question

By Ashish Kumar Sen

As war and poverty fuel surge in migration, Europe debates immigration, integration, and identity As the world faces its biggest migrant crisis since World War II, governments across Europe are struggling to find a solution to a situation that is as much about integration and identity as it is about immigration. The European Union (EU) […]

Africa European Union

MENASource

Sep 3, 2015

Top News: New ISIS in Sinai Video Documents Use of Advanced Weaponry

By EgyptSource

A new video released by Sinai State, the peninsula’s Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) affiliated militant group, allegedly documents a number of sophisticated operations on Egyptian army targets and appears to show the group’s capacity to move with alarming freedom through areas of North Sinai.

MENASource

Sep 3, 2015

EconSource: S&P Says Saudi Banks Can Fund Up to $100 Billion of State Debt

By EconSource

Saudi Arabia’s banks have enough assets to absorb $75 billion to $100 billion of government securities as the Kingdom begins selling bonds for the first time in seven year, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) said.

SyriaSource

Sep 3, 2015

Syria Banks Will Wait Out the Conflict

By Rashad al-Kattan

Many observers have dubbed the conflict in Syria (and rightly so) an international one, as regional and global powers compete through direct and proxy actors on Syrian territory. Their different forms of intervention has both shaped and transformed the Syrian revolution, which started with local protests in March 2011 as a rejection to the untenable […]

Economy & Business Syria

UkraineAlert

Sep 2, 2015

Mr. Lavrov Builds His Dream World

By Adrian Karatnycky

Each summer, as part of ongoing efforts to influence their young, Russia’s government leaders and propagandists head to a conference center on the Klyazma River about 130 miles northeast of Moscow to address the “Terra Scientia” Russian Youth Education Conference. Despite its lofty name, the conference bears little trace of free inquiry. Over the course […]

Russia

UkraineAlert

Sep 2, 2015

In the Face of Russian Aggression in Ukraine, a New US Agenda for Europe

By Stephen Blank

Since the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, the world has seen precious little Western leadership when it comes to confronting Russian President Vladimir Putin—despite US and European Union sanctions, recent efforts to strengthen NATO’s conventional deterrence in Europe, and the first signs of increased defense spending in Europe. Even in the face of plans to send […]

NATO Russia
Chinese frigate Yueyang, July 25, 2014

NATOSource

Sep 2, 2015

Chinese Warships Operating in Bering Sea Off Alaska Coast

By Jeremy Page and Gordon Lubold, Wall Street Journal

Five Chinese navy ships are currently operating in the Bering Sea, off the coast of Alaska, the first time the U.S. military has seen such activity in the area, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.

China United States and Canada

MENASource

Sep 2, 2015

Top News: Multiple ISIS Suicide Attacks Kill Twelve Iraqi Soldiers and Militiamen

By MENASource

A series of ISIS suicide attacks outside a town in Iraq’s western Anbar province Tuesday killed twelve soldiers and allied Sunni militiamen, military and hospital officials said. They said the attack began when ISIS militants shelled army and militia positions outside the town of Haditha with mortars.

MENASource

Sep 2, 2015

Top News: Egypt’s Sisi Discusses Cooperation, Economic Ties With Chinese Counterpart

By EgyptSource

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met in Beijing on Wednesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss furthering economic and political cooperation between the two countries, Egypt’s news agency MENA reported.

MENASource

Sep 2, 2015

EconSource: Egypt to Keep Eni’s Natural Gas Find to Itself

By EconSource

Egypt plans to keep all the natural gas produced at a giant field that Italy’s Eni found off its Mediterranean coast to itself, heightening competition among gas producers in the Middle East and Africa.

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