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MENASource

Apr 9, 2015

Top News: Cybercrime Draft Law Awaits Presidential Approval

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s government has approved a draft law tackling internet crime and submitted it to the presidency for final approval, Minister of Communication and Information Technology Khaled Negm said on Thursday. The minister said that the law addresses “crimes committed both against fellow citizens and against the state.” 

MENASource

Apr 9, 2015

EconSource: Oil Tankers Diverted From Yemen Amid Saudi Air Strikes

By EconSource

At least four oil and natural gas tankers that were headed to Yemen have been diverted as chaos mounts in the country following the launch of Saudi-led air strikes, according to industry sources and ship tracking data. Fighting has forced the country’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant to take one of its production plants […]

MENASource

Apr 9, 2015

Egypt and Yemen, Take Two

By MENASource

The escalation of the conflict in Yemen has mobilized the largest number of Arab forces in the past sixty years. Egypt represents a major partner in the Saudi-led Arab coalition that has conducted regular air strikes against rebel Houthi positions with the stated goal of returning ousted President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi to power.

North Africa Yemen

New Atlanticist

Apr 9, 2015

Nuclear Deal May Elicit More Bad Behavior from Iran, Says Ex-NSA Jones

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Free of sanctions, Tehran ‘will become more aggressive’ A nuclear deal in hand and free of Western sanctions, Iran could more aggressively undermine US allies through “cyber attacks, subversion, and terrorism,” retired Gen James L. Jones, Jr., said April 8. “Even if a deal is concluded, it is possible that an emboldened Iran free of […]

Cybersecurity Iran

MENASource

Apr 8, 2015

Egypt and Yemen 53 Years Later

By Yasmine Farouk

Fifty-three years after Gamal Abdel Nasser’s failed adventure in Yemen, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is rallying under that same banner of pan-Arabism, and Egypt is once again involved in Yemen’s domestic affairs. Unlike under Nasser, however, rather than trying to counter Saudi Arabia’s regional interests, Egypt is jumping on the bandwagon with the kingdom, […]

North Africa Saudi Arabia

New Atlanticist

Apr 8, 2015

Al-Qaeda Affiliate Gains from Yemen Crisis

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Al-Qaeda in the Arabia Peninsula (AQAP) has emerged as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the crisis in Yemen where its traditional enemies—Saudi Arabia and Zaydi Shia Houthi rebels—are preoccupied in a war against each other. “AQAP is benefitting from the chaos and the collapse of the Yemeni state,” Nabeel Khoury, a Nonresident Senior Fellow […]

Yemen

New Atlanticist

Apr 8, 2015

Return to Diplomacy ‘Best Bet’ for Yemen

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Atlantic Council’s Nabeel Khoury discusses crisis in Yemen A quick return to diplomacy is the best bet for Yemen, says Nabeel Khoury, a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. Khoury spoke in an interview with the New Atlanticist’s Ashish Kumar Sen. Excerpts below:

Yemen

SouthAsiaSource

Apr 8, 2015

India and France. C’est la vie.

By Mohan Guruswamy

The peripatetic Narendra Modi visits Paris later this week reciprocating French President Francois Hollande’s visit in February last year. Despite the frequent high-level interactions there has been little traction on the substantive issues. There are several long pending issues such as six new nuclear power plants by Areva and the Indian Nuclear Power Corporation of […]

India

MENASource

Apr 8, 2015

Arming the Kurds to Defeat ISIS in Mosul

By Wladimir van Wilgenburg

Buttressed by anti-ISIS coalition airstrikes, Kurdish forces (Peshmerga) have successfully maintained their front lines against the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL). Both Baghdad and Washington need the Kurds to strike at ISIS in the symbolic city of Mosul, but some in the US government fear that directly arming the Kurds could encourage a future war […]

Iraq

MENASource

Apr 8, 2015

Top News: US Expedites Arms Shipments to Saudi Arabia

By MENASource

The United States is speeding up arms supplies and bolstering intelligence sharing with a Saudi-led alliance bombing a militia aligned with Iran in neighboring Yemen, US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.

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