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Sweden and Finland are NATO Partners

NATOSource

Aug 22, 2014

Special Summit Series: Sweden, Finland, and NATO

By Magnus Nordenman

Over the last decade Sweden and Finland have emerged as NATO’s arguably best operational partners.

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MENASource

Aug 22, 2014

Top News: US Joint Chiefs Says Raiding Syria Is Key to Halting ISIS

By MENASource

  The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS, or IS) cannot be defeated unless the United States or its partners take on the group inside Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday. “This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated,” […]

MENASource

Aug 22, 2014

Top News: NCHR Says Human Rights Watch Report is Deliberately Misleading

By EgyptSource

  The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) said in a statement Friday that remarks made in a recent report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on the dispersal of the pro-Morsi Raba’a al-Adeweya and Nahda sit-ins last year violate the professional and ethical standards of research.

MENASource

Aug 22, 2014

Shut Up ISIS

By Nancy Messieh

Hashtag activism rarely serves a purpose. It is easy to sit in the comfort of a quiet home, thousands of miles away from any real conflict, and click a link, or share a thought, and be left with the sensation that something has been accomplished.

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Trade in Action

Aug 21, 2014

The Local Debate about TTIP in Several European Countries

TTIP – Debate: European Goals and FearsIn this video from Deutsche Welle, an international German broadcaster, Olaf Böhnke, head of the Berlin Office of the European Council on Foreign Affairs is interviewed on the European goals and fears about TTIP. Böhnke says that even though agriculture and food safety issues currently make the headlines in […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, April 10, 2014

NATOSource

Aug 21, 2014

Beyond Ukraine: NATO Solidarity in a Time of Crisis

By Bohuslav Sobotka, Foreign Policy

[I]t is important that NATO members see the alliance’s security guarantees as a two-way street, not only in bringing benefits in the form of extra security, but also responsibilities.

Afghanistan Central Europe

MENASource

Aug 21, 2014

Sisi’s Security Dilemma

By Tarek Radwan

Since the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi from office in July 2013 by now-President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, extremist attacks on civilians, state institutions, and security personnel have increased within Egypt’s borders. While more than half of the attacks occurred in the Sinai Peninsula (56 percent of the total 599 reported in the press […]

North Africa
NATO AGS

NATOSource

Aug 21, 2014

Drone Maker Northrop Grumman Eyes Europe Orders

By Robert Wall, Wall Street Journal

Northrop Grumman Corp. is betting the introduction of high-altitude surveillance drones within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will help trigger orders for dozens of such aircraft from European armed forces.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 21, 2014

At NATO summit, the Alliance should re-affirm role of its nuclear arms

By New Atlanticist

As NATO leaders prepare for their annual summit conference in two weeks, they should be ready to re-affirm the importance to the Alliance of nuclear weapons, including US nuclear warheads deployed in Europe, several Atlantic Council analysts say in two new essays. Three Atlantic Council board directors who served as top presidential advisers on security […]

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MENASource

Aug 21, 2014

Top News: US Special Forces Tried But Failed To Rescue James Foley in Syria

By MENASource

US government announced that it had tried to rescue journalist James Foley and other hostages during a secret mission into Syria and exchanged gunfire with Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) militants. The rescue operation was unsuccessful after discovering that none of the hostages were present at the compound.

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