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Former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg

NATOSource

Mar 18, 2014

Italian Paper Reports Norway’s Stoltenberg Favored to be Next Secretary General of NATO

By The Local (Norway)

Former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg [@jensstoltenberg] is the clear favourite to become the next Secretary General of NATO when Denmark’s Anders Fogh Rasmussen steps down in September

NATO Northern Europe

MENASource

Mar 18, 2014

Saudi Arabia brings the fight back home

By Kristin Diwan

In the first three years of the Arab Awakening, Saudi Arabia has undertaken an uncharacteristically assertive foreign policy. As a status quo power in a rapidly changing region, Saudi Arabia sought to counter potential Iranian gains and to maintain control over its regional sphere of influence.

Saudi Arabia
Laurent Fabius, May 29, 2007

NATOSource

Mar 18, 2014

France Offers to Halt Russian Ship Sale if UK Hits Oligarchs

By Hugh Carnegy and Peter Spiegel, Financial Times

France says it could suspend its controversial deal to sell helicopter assault ships to Russia if more sanctions are adopted against Moscow over Ukraine – but only if Britain also takes action against Russian oligarchs in London.

France Russia

MENASource

Mar 18, 2014

Taking a Back Seat as a New Generation Emerges

By Sarah El Sirgany

“In prison, a woman guard stripped us naked for the search. She put her hand where she wanted. Those who objected or cried were searched again. She told us, ‘You brought this on yourselves and now I have to search you again’,” Salsabeel El Gharbawy, a 20-year-old Al-Azhar student told me in a hushed voice […]

North Africa
US missile defense test, Sept. 10, 2013

NATOSource

Mar 18, 2014

Report: Delays in Missile Defense for Poland, Romania

By Rachel Oswald, Defense One

The Defense Department presently intends to declare the second and third phases of the European Phased Adaptive Approach “technically capable” in 2015 and 2018.

Central Europe Missile Defense

MENASource

Mar 18, 2014

Top News: Libya Misratans Pull Out of Sirte and Oilfields Ahead of Possible Jadhran Deal

By MENASource

The Misrata-based Central Libya Shield Brigade has withdrawn from Sirte Airbase and from the Zueitina, al-Fida, and al-Ghani oilfields south east of Sirte. It took control of the airbase last Tuesday and then moved into the oilfields later in the week.

MENASource

Mar 18, 2014

Navy SEAL Action Behind Words in Support of Libyan Institutions

By Karim Mezran

In the early hours of Monday, March 17 in the Mediterranean, US Navy SEALS seized the tanker that just a few days earlier infamously loaded illicitly-obtained oil from an eastern oil field and escaped from Libyan authorities. Many have decried the move, authorized by President Barack Obama, as a breach of Libyan sovereignty and a […]

Libya

MENASource

Mar 18, 2014

Top News: Officer Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison in Abu Zaabal Case

By EgyptSource

An Egyptian court sentenced a police officer to ten years in prison, with labor, on Tuesday, over the killing of thirty-seven detainees who were described as supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi.

MENASource

Mar 18, 2014

EconSource Headlines- March 18, 2014

By EconSource

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

New Atlanticist

Mar 18, 2014

Russia’s Foreign Policy Reflects Domestic Dysfunction

By Barbara Slavin

Vladimir Putin appears well on his way to reclaiming the Crimea for Russia, restoring the peninsula to a status forfeited by Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union in 1954. But this territorial achievement may provide only temporary distraction for Russia’s 140 million people who have seen their quality of life deteriorate dramatically since Putin took power in 1999. […]

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