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MENASource

Sep 4, 2015

Top News: Sinai Blasts Injure Six Peacekeepers, Including Four Americans, Pentagon Says

By EgyptSource

Six soldiers including four Americans were injured on Thursday in two blasts in northeast Sinai caused by improvised explosive devices, the Pentagon said.

MENASource

Sep 4, 2015

EconSource: Standard & Poor’s Rates Iraq for First Time

By EconSource

Financial services company Standard & Poor’s (S&P) issued a credit rating for Iraq for the first time on Thursday, giving the country a junk score.

SyriaSource

Sep 4, 2015

Syria: Don’t Let Perfect Be the Enemy of Good

By Faysal Itani

Foreign Policy published an intriguing article by Aaron David Miller, arguing that the current US Syria policy is the inevitable outcome of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy worldview.

Syria
NATO activates staff units in 6 members states, Sept. 3, 2015

NATOSource

Sep 3, 2015

NATO Activates Staff Units in Six Eastern Members

By Jens Stoltenberg, NATO

Today, we raise the NATO flag over six new headquarters. The NATO Force Integration Units. Here in Vilnius. But also in Bucharest, Bydgoszcz, Sofia, Riga, and Tallinn.

Central Europe NATO

MENASource

Sep 3, 2015

Egypt’s Anti-Terror Law: A Translation

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved, in mid-August, a new anti-terror law aimed at strengthening the country’s efforts in combatting a rising terror insurgency.

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 3, 2015

Top News: UN Investigators Denounce International Failure to Protect Refugees

By MENASource

UN investigators on Thursday denounced the international community’s failure to protect refugees fleeing Syria, saying the neglect of those forced to flee the conflict had fueled Europe’s migrant crisis.

"Sweden cannot expect military support if we are not full members"

NATOSource

Sep 3, 2015

Swedes Lean Toward NATO, Await Moscow’s Response

By Paul McLeary

The leadership of Sweden’s Centre Party said Tuesday the time had come for a more serious consideration of joining the military alliance in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine and increasing fears in the Baltic States about Moscow’s intentions.

NATO NATO Partnerships

New Atlanticist

Sep 3, 2015

Instability in Guatemala Has National Security Implications for the United States

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Atlantic Council analysts predict period of uncertainty after President’s surprise resignation Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina’s surprise resignation on September 3 in the face of corruption allegations will likely plunge the Central American nation into a period of further political as well as economic uncertainty with direct implications for US national security, said the Atlantic […]

Central America

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.

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