Category: Blogs

Top News: Thousands of Islamists Rally in Tahrir to Denounce Former Regime Candidates

By Mara Revkin

Tens of thousands of mainly Islamist protesters rallied in Tahrir Square after Friday prayers for a demonstration under the slogan, “The only demand: Together against the remnants of the former regime.”

Former NATO commander on Afghanistan withdrawal: ‘there was never one master plan… we desperately need a NATO plan’

By Bernd Riegert, Deutsche-Welle

From Bernd Riegert, Deutsche-Welle:  DW: Do you find all the talk about the withdrawal counter-productive?

US and Turkey discuss creating buffer zone in Syria

By Elise Labott, CNN Security Clearance

Turkey says NATO has duty to defend Syrian border

By DPA

Out of the Headlines and Under the Radar, Noose Tightens around Egyptian Civil Society

By Mara Revkin

With the political pageantry of the upcoming presidential election dominating the headlines this week, a legal campaign targeting Egyptian civil society groups is doing further damage under the radar. A criminal case against 43 employees of democracy-promoting NGOs accused of using foreign funding to foment unrest in Egypt resumed for a second session on April […]

Clinton says US supports UN force in Syria, but no comment on NATO role

By Hillary Clinton, the Department of State

From Hillary Clinton, the Department of State:  Assad will have to go, and the Syrian people must be given the chance to chart their own future.

Presuming President Hollande

By Nicholas Dungan

If François Hollande, the Socialist Party challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy, is elected president of France on May 6, he will face an immediate sizing-up of his leadership at the G8 and NATO summits on the morrow of his taking office on May 17.  He should be expected to arrive at those summit meetings as a […]

NATO hints at ‘political’ agreement with Russia on missile defense

By the Global Security Newswire

From the Global Security Newswire: A NATO official in a Wednesday radio interview hinted that a "political" agreement on missile defense cooperation could be reached with Russia in the coming months, ITAR -Tass reported

Enrichment Freeze at Fordow Key to Progress in Iran Nuclear Talks

By Barbara Slavin

As diplomats from Iran and the world’s big powers assemble in Istanbul on the inauspicious day of Friday 13, the key to managing the Iranian nuclear crisis lies deep in a mountain near the Shiite theological center of Qom.