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Oct 6, 2014

Egypt in Focus: President Sisi in Power

By EgyptSource

Gaining a new president roughly five months ago, Egypt’s domestic and foreign policies are slowly beginning to take shape. An energy crisis, subsidy cuts, and a grand megaproject remain at the forefront of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s economic policy, while his foreign policy focuses on alliances with the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and mending US-Egypt relations. […]

North Africa
Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting Novorossiysk, Sept. 23, 2014

NATOSource

Oct 6, 2014

Russian and Polish Analysts Concerned War in Ukraine Could Escalate and Approach Nuclear Level

By Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

In European capitals I have visited recently – in particular, Warsaw and Berlin – certain ideas about the Ukraine crisis are regarded as established facts.

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Estonian President Toomas Henrik Ilves, Sept. 25, 2009

NATOSource

Oct 6, 2014

Tensions Surge in Estonia Amid a Russian Replay of Cold War Tactics

By Andrew Higgins, New York Times

So far, the only solid fact, at least according to Estonia’s version of what happened in a thicket of pine trees and scrub on the border here with Russia, is that a well-trained and well-armed squad of Russian security operatives crossed into Estonia on Sept. 5 and grabbed Eston Kohver

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MENASource

Oct 6, 2014

Top News: AQAP Executes Fourteen Soldiers in Hadramout

By MENASource

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a video Sunday night showing the execution of fourteen soldiers in the city of Shibam from August. The video depicts al-Qaeda forces waylaying a military bus and kidnapping the soldiers on board. The leader of the militant force claims the soldiers are Houthis whose political forces have been […]

MENASource

Oct 6, 2014

Top News: Egypt Arrests Militants Recruiting for ISIS

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s state news agency says security forces have arrested four suspected members of a militant cell recruiting fighters for the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham.

UkraineAlert

Oct 6, 2014

Four More Crimean Tatars Vanish, One Dead Amid Russian Crackdown

By James Rupert

19 Tatars Abducted or Disappeared Since Moscow’s Takeover of Crimea At least nineteen ethnic Tatars have been abducted or have disappeared in Russian-ruled Crimea, four of them in the past ten days, Tatar and human rights activists say. Russian authorities up to the office of President Vladimir Putin have promised to investigate the disappearances, which […]

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MENASource

Oct 6, 2014

EconSource: Yemen Reform Plan Still Broadly In Line with IMF Loan Terms– Lagarde

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries. 

SouthAsiaSource

Oct 3, 2014

This Week in South Asia: September 27 – October 3

By Elijah Logsdon and Refayat Haque

Commentary from the South Asia Center on the most relevant news from the region, and suggested “must-read” analyses from the week. AfghanistanThis week newly sworn-in Afghan President Ashraf Ghani signed the long-delayed Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) agreement with the United States, along with the NATO Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). By choosing to sign these […]

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MENASource

Oct 3, 2014

The Campaign Against ISIS: Is Syria an Afterthought?

By Frederic C. Hof

There is a belief in certain quarters of the Pentagon, and perhaps elsewhere in the executive branch, that the military mission of the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS, or ISIL) is to defeat ISIS in Iraq; that airstrikes in Syria are intended only to enhance the ability of the Iraqi […]

Syria

UkraineAlert

Oct 3, 2014

Ukraine’s New Parliament Will Strengthen Poroshenko, but Independents Will Make It Unpredictable

By New Atlanticist

Analysis: Putin Unlikely to Scrap the Ceasefire Before October 26 Vote While Russia’s President Vladimir Putin still has unmet ambitions in Ukraine, he is likely to avoid launching any new military offensive there before Ukraine’s October 26 parliamentary election, writes Timothy Ash, an economist who directs emerging markets strategy at Standard Bank in London. Putin […]

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