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UkraineAlert

Mar 26, 2015

Putin’s War Has Consolidated Ukraine

By Alexander Motyl

Viewed historically, the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war is the product of four deeper causes and one trigger. First, the Soviet empire’s collapse in 1991 propelled its successor state, Russia, to seek reimperialization for structural and ideological reasons. Second, the emergence of a “fascistoid” (or almost fully fascist) regime made imperial revival a central feature of Vladimir […]

Ukraine

MENASource

Mar 26, 2015

Top News: Egypt Providing Military Support for Gulf Arab Operation in Yemen

By EgyptSource

Egypt participated in the Saudi-led campaign against Shia Houthis militias in Yemen with its naval and air forces, an Egyptian military source said on Thursday. Warplanes from Saudi Arabia and Arab allies struck the Shia Muslim rebels fighting to oust Yemen’s president on Thursday. 

UkraineAlert

Mar 26, 2015

Ukraine’s Powerful Billionaire Governor Quits After Clash With Kyiv

By New Atlanticist

Dnipropetrovsk’s Kolomoyskyi: Patriotic, Corrupt, Threatening—Or All Three? Ukrainian billionaire politician Ihor Kolomoyskyi resigned today as governor of Ukraine’s strategically critical Dnipropetrovsk province after clashing with the central government and parliament over control of two state-owned oil-sector companies. In that clash, Kolomoyskyi last week sent troops of an armed militia he controls to occupy the Kyiv […]

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Mar 26, 2015

NATO Chief Urges Increase in Military Spending to Confront Growing Security Threats

By Larry Luxner

Europe’s belt-tightening on defense at a time when Russia and China have ramped up military spending endangers NATO, the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said March 25. “While we have been cutting our defense budgets, others have invested heavily,” Stoltenberg said in his keynote address at the NATO Allied Command Transformation seminar. The Atlantic Council’s […]

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Mar 26, 2015

Can Ghani Make Peace with the Taliban?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Afghan leader ‘cautiously optimistic’ about prospects of reconciliation as Pakistan, China pitch in Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is “cautiously optimistic” about the prospects of peace with the Taliban, in part because Pakistan—where a mélange of terrorist groups have for years found safe haven and support—now acknowledges that improving ties with neighboring Afghanistan is key to […]

Afghanistan

MENASource

Mar 25, 2015

EconSource: First Moroccan Islamic bank to open in 2016

By EconSource

The governor of Morocco’s central bank has announced that the country’s first financial institution fully compliant with the principles of sharia will open in 2016. The launching of the Islamic finance industry is part of efforts to stimulate the Moroccan economy and attract more foreign investment. Morocco has already approved plans to create a committee […]

British Apache helicopter at RAF Fairford, July 13, 2014

NATOSource

Mar 25, 2015

Parliament Report: World is More Dangerous and British Defense Strategy is ‘No Longer Adequate’

By Defense Committee, UK House of Commons

The world is more dangerous and unstable than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Is the UK ready to respond?

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Mar 25, 2015

Will Chaos in Yemen Doom US War on al-Qaeda?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Atlantic Council analyst sees opportunity for cooperation on drone strikes Yemen’s descent into chaos has jeopardized US counterterrorism operations there, but the Pentagon could still order scaled-down drone strikes against an al-Qaeda affiliate by working with like-minded elements in the Yemeni military, says an Atlantic Council analyst. US drone strikes on al Qaeda in the […]

Yemen

MENASource

Mar 25, 2015

Top News: Saudi Troops Amassing on Yemeni Border

By MENASource

Saudi Arabia is moving heavy military equipment, including artillery, to areas near its border with Yemen.

MENASource

Mar 25, 2015

Top News: Egypt Denies Approval of Military Intervention in Yemen

By EgyptSource

Yemen’s Foreign Minister Riad Yassin has said that Egypt and Gulf countries had approved a military intervention in the country following a request it made to the Arab League. Yassin told Sky News Arabia that his country had submitted a request to the Arab League which was approved by Egypt and Gulf states. Foreign Ministry Spokesman […]

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