Category: Blogs

EconSource: Donor Pledges for Yemen Increase to $8.2 Billion

By EconSource

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

NATO’s Second-Class Members

By Slawomir Sierakowski, New York Times

There is no need to pretend: Those members who have no NATO bases are simply a gray area of second-class membership. What has become clear is that not all NATO members are equal.

Special Summit Series: Italy and NATO

By Stefano Stefanini

Italy feels the heat from the Mediterranean, a conveyor belt for the growing insecurity in North Africa and the Middle East.

Denmark Will Join NATO’s Missile Defense System

By Local (Denmark)

Denmark will join Nato’s missile defence system, the Foreign Affairs Committee (Udenrigspolitisk Nævn) decided on Thursday.

Top News: Libya in New Crisis as Islamist ‘Terrorists’ Seize Airport

By MENASource

Islamist militias openly challenged the legitimacy of the Libyan parliament after announcing their seizure of Tripoli airport, plunging Libya into a deeper political crisis. The militias said the House of Representatives had lost its legitimacy. The parliament fired back, calling the groups “terrorists” and asserting that it will deal with the “legitimate target” through regular […]

Life in Luhansk’s War Zone: Old People Search for Water, Cellphone Signal

By Irena Chalupa

Residents Recount Their Struggle to Survive Daily Shells and Gunfire Building by building, daily artillery explosions are blasting and burning Ukraine’s southeastern-most provincial capital, Luhansk, into a ruin whose remaining residents are those too poor or aged to escape. Roughly half of the city’s pre-war population of about 450,000 has fled—to other locales in Ukraine […]

Russia Not Invited to Wales NATO Summit – Reports

Russia will not participate in the upcoming NATO summit in Wales at the beginning of September as it was not invited, Kommersant business daily reported Monday.

Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Crusader Quits Government

By Irena Chalupa

‘No Political Will’ for a ‘Large-Scale War’ Against Graft, Tetiana Chornovol Says Ukraine’s most prominent anti-corruption campaigner, Tetiana Chornovol, has quit her post as head of the government’s National Anti-Corruption Committee, writing on the prominent Ukrainian news website, Ukrainska Pravda, that the government is unprepared for “an uncompromising, large-scale war against corruption.”

Top News: North African Ministers in Cairo for Libya Crisis Talks

By EgyptSource

  Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met early Monday with his Libyan, Algerian, and Tunisian counterparts for talks on the situation in Libya.