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MENASource

Apr 1, 2014

Top News: More Than 150,000 Killed In Syria Conflict

By MENASource

More than 150,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011, a monitoring group said in a new tally released on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 150,344 people, 51,212 of them civilians, including nearly 7,985 children.

MENASource

Apr 1, 2014

Top News: Sabbahi Campaign Claims Breaches as Signature Collection Begins

By EgyptSource

The presidential campaign of Egyptian Nasserist candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi said violations occurred on the first day of the period in which candidates can register to run for the presidential race.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, April 1, 2014

NATOSource

Apr 1, 2014

Secretary General: Russian Aggression Against Ukraine Brings Instability to NATO’s Borders

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine challenges our vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace. It fundamentally changes Europe’s security landscape. And it causes instability right on NATO’s borders.

NATO NATO Partnerships

MENASource

Apr 1, 2014

EconSource Headlines- April 1, 2014

By EconSource

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

(REUTERS/Umit Bektas)

New Atlanticist

Mar 31, 2014

Turkey’s Vote Strengthens Erdoğan For Battles to Come

By Orhan Taner

With more than 98% of the votes counted by midday Monday in the March 30 Turkish municipal elections,  Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) clearly had won their eighth straight victory in national voting contests (three general election, three local elections, and two referenda) since they first won […]

Turkey

MENASource

Mar 31, 2014

Blurring the Record on Syria

By Frederic C. Hof

In his exchange with Scott Pelley, President Obama did not (as the Reuters account implies) literally employ the “boots on the ground” straw man to caricature the position of his critics. But he came close.

Syria

MENASource

Mar 31, 2014

Forays by the Coptic Church into Politics Spell Trouble for its Subjects

By Amir Beshay

A video posted this week on Facebook appears to show Egyptian pop singer Ihab Tawfiq singing the now-popular pro-army anthem “Teslam al-Ayadi” in a Coptic church, reportedly in France. This comes as the latest of many examples of the Coptic Church participating in Egypt’s political scene in a way some see as unacceptable. While the […]

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Mar 31, 2014

Why Syria is Important

By Frederic C. Hof

Syria and its 23 million people sit in the middle of a neighborhood containing important friends and allies of the United States. It is now entering its fourth year of chaos, bloodshed, starvation, and terror. It is a case study in how governments commit war crimes and crimes against humanity against their own citizenry: the […]

Middle East Syria

New Atlanticist

Mar 31, 2014

Kerry-Lavrov Talks? Fine, But US Must Lead in Real Deterrence to Putin on Ukraine

By James Rupert

Yesterday’s talks between Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov kept hope alive that Ukraine’s fields this spring might be visited by harvesters scything the winter wheat, instead of by Russian tanks and bomb craters. But while Lavrov agreed in Paris that a diplomatic solution to the crisis is needed, the […]

NATO Russia

Trade in Action

Mar 31, 2014

Renewing Trade Promotion Authority – Why Now?

By Cale Rogoyski and Katelyn Lamson

With negotiations for huge trade deals across the Atlantic and Pacific in full swing, the need to renew Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) is a hot topic of conversation among policymakers in Washington. The granting of authority by Congress to the President of the United States to enter into trade negotiations has traditionally enjoyed overwhelming bipartisan […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs
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