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Aug 25, 2014

Ukraine’s Independence Day: Opposed Observances

By Irena Chalupa

Rebels Parade Prisoners to Declare That Ukraine Is Nazi-Inspired Ukraine’s government marked the country’s twenty-third anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union yesterday with a military parade and a vow by President Petro Poroshenko to sustain Ukraine’s war against Russian-sponsored separatists in the southeast. In Donetsk, the separatists paraded bruised and dirty Ukrainian soldiers, their […]

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MENASource

Aug 25, 2014

The Week in Egypt [August 25, 2014]

By Elissa Miller

Catch up on the latest out of Egypt every week, with analysis, news updates, photos, videos, and more.

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US Patriot missile battery in Turkey, February 4, 2013

NATOSource

Aug 25, 2014

NATO Debates Directing Missile Shield Against Russia

By Spiegel and RIA Novosti

From Spiegel:  NATO officials are considering deploying a long-planned missile defense system — aimed at protecting Europe from attacks from the Middle East — against Russia as well, SPIEGEL has learned.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 23, 2014

‘Zero Problems’ with President Erdoğan: FM Davutoğlu is the new handpicked PM of Turkey

By Pınar Dost-Niyego and Orhan Taner

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has designated Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to be its new leader and the country’s 26th prime minister when current Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is inaugurated as president next week. Davutoğlu will become the third prime minister to hail from the ranks of the AKP since it first […]

MENASource

Aug 22, 2014

Can Assad Help With ISIS?

By Frederic C. Hof

With Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel telling a Pentagon press conference that “all options are on the table” regarding air strikes in Syria on the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Martin Dempsey saying that ISIS cannot be defeated militarily without addressing its presence in Syria, […]

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, December 4, 2013

NATOSource

Aug 22, 2014

NATO Warns of Russia Moving Artillery Units and Special Forces Into Ukraine

By NATO and New York Times

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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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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