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New Atlanticist

Oct 15, 2014

The US Fight Against ISIS: An Exercise in Futility?

By James Rupert

Fred Hof: US Policy Needs a Ground Game, and Here Are Two Ways to Build It The US military has escalated air strikes against the Islamist militant ISIS fighters who have been closing in on the Syrian town of Kobani and the nearby Turkish border, in large part because the Syrian civil war is now […]

Iraq Syria

MENASource

Oct 15, 2014

Top News: Thirteen Injured in Cairo Bomb Attack

By MENASource

A strong blast hit a busy district in central Cairo on Tuesday night, leaving thirteen injured, three of whom are in critical condition. A senior security official said the explosion was caused by a homemade bomb placed near a courthouse.

MENASource

Oct 15, 2014

Top News: Bomb Goes Off in Cairo’s Downtown Leaving Thirteen Injured

By EgyptSource

A strong blast hit a busy district in central Cairo on Tuesday night, leaving thirteen injured, three of whom are in critical condition. A senior security official said the explosion was caused by a homemade bomb placed in the vicinity of a court house. 

MENASource

Oct 15, 2014

Tunisia’s 2014 Elections: The Search for a Post-Transitional Order

By Haykel Ben Mahfoudh

Pursuant to the transitional provisions of Tunisia’s constitution, the Independent Higher Authority for Elections (ISIE) organized both the legislative and presidential elections to take place on October 26 and November 23, respectively.

North Africa

Trade in Action

Oct 14, 2014

TTIP Action | October 14

Ignore the Critics – TTIP is Something the Left should Fight forIn his opinion piece, John Healey, a British Labour Party MP and chair of the the All-Party Parliamentary Group on EU-US Trade & Investment, addresses recent criticism of the political Left on TTIP. Healey urges the critics to consider TTIP as an unprecedented bilateral […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs
NATO and the Ukrainian government were targetted by Russian hackers

NATOSource

Oct 14, 2014

Russian Hackers Use ‘Zero-Day’ to Hack NATO, Ukraine in Cyber-Spy Campaign

By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post

A Russian hacking group probably working for the government has been exploiting a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft’s Windows operating system to spy on NATO, the Ukrainian government, a U.S. university researcher and other national security targets

Cybersecurity NATO
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Oct. 1, 2014

NATOSource

Oct 14, 2014

NATO’s New Secretary-General Takes Over Alliance in Need of Money—and Unity

By Maria Savel, World Politics Review

Jens Stoltenberg, former prime minister of Norway, assumed the position of secretary-general of NATO on Oct. 1. He takes over the job at an important juncture for NATO:

NATO Security & Defense

MENASource

Oct 14, 2014

Egypt’s Options in Dealing with the Libyan Crisis (Part III)

By Nader Bakkar

The previous article reviewed the likely reactions of two of the Arab states which neighbor Libya—Algeria and Tunisia—should a joint Arab intervention be proposed in order to put an end to the worsening crisis in Tripoli. Of the Arab states neighboring Libya, Sudan is the only one whose predicted reaction to a joint Arab intervention in […]

MENASource

Oct 14, 2014

Top News: Rights Group Says 127 Students Arrested in Past Three Days

By EgyptSource

  Egyptian universities started the new academic year on Saturday amid a tense atmosphere marked by condemnation and calls for protests.

MENASource

Oct 14, 2014

Top News: Benomar Warns of Yemen’s Fragility; Southerners Mark October 14 Revolution

By MENASource

UN Special Advisor to Yemen Jamal Benomar warned of implications of such violence for the country’s situation on Tuesday, telling reporters on the sidelines of a UN Security Council meeting that the transition process is in danger of collapse.

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