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MENASource

Sep 23, 2014

Top News: United States and Arab Allies Strike Targets Inside Syria; 120 Militants Killed

By MENASource

The United States and five Arab allies—Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia—launched a wide-ranging air campaign against ISIS and at least one other extremist group in Syria for the first time early Tuesday, targeting the groups’ bases, training camps, supply lines, and checkpoints in at least four provinces.

Russian S-300V SAM and Tor-M1 in 2008

NATOSource

Sep 23, 2014

NATO Airspace ‘Contested’ by Long Range Russian Missiles

By Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr., Breaking Defense

The alliance was looking at this training issue even before Vladimir Putin’s “little green men” took over Crimea.

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MENASource

Sep 23, 2014

Kurdish-Arab Rebel Alliance May be Key to Obama’s Syrian Strategy

By Mutlu Civiroglu and Wladimir van Wilgenburg

Now that the anti-ISIS coalition has struck Raqqa in Syria, it must seriously consider the Kurds as its most effective on the ground partners. The Obama administration needs local partners in Iraq and Syria to fight against the jihadist group, the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS, ISIL, or the Islamic State) if it […]

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New Atlanticist

Sep 23, 2014

Life After the Presidency: Can Shimon Peres Find a New Job?

By James Rupert

After seven years as Israel’s president and fifty-five years in politics, Shimon Peres is looking for a job. And in a satirical, five-minute video, his granddaughter, Israeli columnist and screenwriter Mika Almog, shows how hard it can be.

MENASource

Sep 23, 2014

Yemen: President Hadi’s Gamble with the Houthis

By Danya Greenfield

After a devastating week of violence claiming at least 300 lives, the Houthi movement and leadership of the major political parties signed a peace agreement on Sunday that could lead the country out of the current morass.

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MENASource

Sep 23, 2014

Top News: Sisi to Meet Obama in New York; Egypt Amends Foreign Funding Law

By EgyptSource

  US President Barack Obama will hold his first official meetings with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly this week.

MENASource

Sep 23, 2014

Who Benefits After US Airstrikes in Syria?

By Faysal Itani

US airstrikes against ISIS have so far focused on its positions in Deir Ezzor, Hasaka, and Raqqa provinces—the latter being the capital province of the so-called Caliphate—and include Raqqa city, Tabqa, Ain Issa, Deir Ezzor city, and Tel Abyad.

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MENASource

Sep 23, 2014

What to Expect from Sisi’s UNGA Speech

By Maged Atiya

With Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi set to speak at the United Nations General Assembly this week in New York, the annual ritual of world leaders addressing, and occasionally haranguing, the assembled body will be conducted in a more troubled world this year. Aside from the simmering potential conflict between the West and Russia over […]

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 23, 2014

EconSource: President Obama Renews US Support to Tunisia

By EconSource

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

UkraineAlert

Sep 23, 2014

Russia Cracks Down in Crimea, Shuts Tatar Community Offices

By James Rupert

Police, Masked Thugs Bar Tatar, Other Ethnic Leaders From Attending UN Conference Today Russian authorities in Crimea have moved since last week to silence and isolate the peninsula’s main ethnic Tatar community and political organization, the Mejlis. Russia’s government has shut down the group’s headquarters in Crimea and tried to prevent Tatar representatives from attending […]

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