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Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, April 10, 2014

NATOSource

May 12, 2014

Czech Republic Wary of Permanently Hosting NATO Troops

By Robert Muller, Reuters

The Czech Republic does not favor hosting foreign NATO troops as part of the alliance’s plans to boost its eastern wing over the Ukraine crisis, its Defense minister said, in sharp contrast to some of its regional peers.

Central Europe NATO

MENASource

May 12, 2014

Top News: Rebels in Southern Syria on the Brink of Turning on Each Other

By MENASource

Moderate opposition factions and Islamist rebels from the Nusra Front were on the brink of going to war with each other on Sunday night. Mediation efforts, under way since last Saturday’s capture of Ahmed Nehmeh, a commander in the western and Gulf-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), were continuing in northern Jordan in a final attempt […]

Russian Presiden Vladimir Putin in Crimea, May 9, 2014

NATOSource

May 12, 2014

The Battle in Ukraine Means Everything

By Timothy Snyder, New Republic

The territory of today’s Ukraine can very easily be placed within every major epoch of the European past.

Europe & Eurasia European Union

MENASource

May 12, 2014

Top News: Seven Brotherhood Supporters Sentenced to Life for Blocking Road

By EgyptSource

The Banha Criminal Court sentenced on Saturday seven defendants to life in prison for blocking the ring road on August 14, after the forcible dispersal of two pro-Mohamed Morsi encampments in Cairo.

MENASource

May 12, 2014

On the Death of those in the Prime of Life

By Amr Hamzawy

Death is great and we but objects of its laughter When we think ourselves in the prime of life, it dares to cry out among us –Rainer Maria Rilke

North Africa

MENASource

May 12, 2014

The Week in Egypt – May 12, 2014

By Daniel Stoker

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

North Africa
Entrance to Sloviansk City Council, April 14, 2014

NATOSource

May 9, 2014

Putin’s Unconventional Tools for Destabilizing Neighbors and Undermining NATO

By Massimo Calabresi, TIME

Over the last decade, Putin has established a well-organized, well-funded and often subtle overt and covert operation in the vast swath of neighboring countries, from Estonia on the Baltic Sea to Azerbaijan in the Caucuses, say western and regional government officials.

NATO Northern Europe
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Nov. 19, 2010

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May 9, 2014

Is Canada Pulling Its Weight in NATO?

By Roland Paris, CIPS

NATO has long called upon its members to maintain military spending at 2 percent of GDP. However, few alliance members have met this target.

NATO Security & Defense
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at Tallinn University, May 9, 2014

NATOSource

May 9, 2014

NATO Chief: Russia’s Actions in Ukraine are Outrageous, Irresponsible, Illegal, and Illegitimate

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Russia’s recent actions in Ukraine are outrageous. They are irresponsible, they are illegal, they are illegitimate.

NATO Northern Europe
US and Polish special operations forces training, Sept. 23, 2011

NATOSource

May 9, 2014

US Deploying Special Forces in Baltics and Central Europe for Exercises

By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes

U.S. special operations forces are increasing their presence in the Baltics and eastern Europe with a continuous cycle of exercises planned as part of a new effort to maintain a “persistent presence” of elite U.S. troops in a region rattled by Russia’s recent actions in Ukraine.

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