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MENASource

Jul 9, 2015

Top News: UN Says More Than Four Million Refugees Have Now Fled Syria

By MENASource

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported on Thursday that more than four million Syrians have fled abroad since the civil war began in 2011 and an additional 7.6 million people have been displaced from their homes within Syria.

MENASource

Jul 9, 2015

Top News: Egypt to Buy Border Surveillance System from Pentagon for $100 Million

By EgyptSource

Egyptian officials want to buy high-tech American border surveillance equipment, the Pentagon said Wednesday, citing Cairo’s desire to better monitor its borders with Libya specifically and other countries, as well.

MENASource

Jul 9, 2015

EconSource: World Bank Approves $350 Million Aid Package for Iraq

By EconSource

The World Bank (WB) approved a $350 million financial assistance package earlier this week to help rebuild infrastructure in Iraq that has been damaged by war and restore public services in local areas.

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Trade in Action

Jul 8, 2015

TTIP Action – July 7

By Global Business & Economics Program

US Trade Representative Michael Froman will meet with his fellow chief negotiators in late July with the goal of completing the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This Week in a Nutshell TTIP faces an important juncture tomorrow as the European Parliament will vote on recommendations that will inform the European Commission’s negotiating position on the prospective trade agreement. […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs
Missile defense test by the USS Fitzgerald, Oct. 24, 2012

NATOSource

Jul 8, 2015

Can Missile Defense Counter Russia’s Nuclear Saber Rattling?

By Robbie Gramer

Attempting to defend Europe against a Russian ballistic missile attack would be “extremely challenging and costly,” according to the State Department’s top missile defense official.

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New Atlanticist

Jul 8, 2015

Here’s What You Need to Know About Lindsey Graham’s Foreign Policy Agenda

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Republican presidential hopeful wants more US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, would reject a ‘bad’ nuclear deal with Iran Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham laid out an interventionist foreign policy in a July 8 address that was peppered with blistering critiques of President Barack Obama as well as some fellow Republicans and tough talk […]

National Security Security & Defense

UkraineAlert

Jul 8, 2015

Here’s Why More Ukrainians Admire Nationalists, and Why the West Shouldn’t Freak Out

By Alexander J. Motyl

Here’s a suggestion that will strike you as either painfully obvious or unnecessarily cumbersome. If you really want to understand contemporary Ukraine and Ukrainians, you need to know Ukrainian. If you accept that point, then discard all the writings by linguistically challenged analysts incapable of delving deeper into the Ukrainian psyche—and then go see two […]

Ukraine

MENASource

Jul 8, 2015

Top News: Sisi Tells American Jewish Committee Resolving the Palestinian Issue is Key to Counter ‘Terrorism’

By EgyptSource

Resolving the Palestinian issue will eliminate one of the most important reasons why people join “terrorist organizations,” President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told the American Jewish Committee (AJC) on Monday.

MENASource

Jul 8, 2015

After Sinai, Calls for Revenge Dominate

By Khaled Dawoud

Angry chants demanding the execution of top Muslim Brotherhood leaders are commonplace at funerals of security personnel killed in terrorist attacks. These calls now seem stronger than ever following the assassination of late Prosecutor General, Hisham Barakat, and the death of at least twenty-one soldiers and officers in clashes with terrorists late last week in […]

North Africa

MENASource

Jul 8, 2015

Top News: McCain Suggests United States is ‘losing’ Against ISIS

By MENASource

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain said at the Committee hearing Tuesday that “there is no compelling reason to believe that anything we are currently doing will be sufficient to achieve the President’s long-stated goal of degrading and ultimately destroying ISIS – either in the short-term or the long-term.”

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