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MENASource

Mar 30, 2017

What to Expect from Sisi’s White House Visit

By Elissa Miller

On April 3, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will visit the White House to meet with US President Donald Trump. Sisi’s first visit to the White House is important for US-Egypt relations. Both leaders have repeatedly expressed admiration for one another, and Cairo appears eager to push for a stronger bilateral relationship that it perceives […]

North Africa

Event Recap

Mar 29, 2017

Pham testifies before Homeland Security Committee on North African terror threats

By Africa Center

On Wednesday, March 29, Atlantic Council Vice President and Africa Center Director Dr. J. Peter Pham testified before the US House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee on “Terrorism in North Africa: An Examination of the Threat.” Africa’s northwest Maghreb region is home to some of the longest-running terrorist campaigns on the African continent, a situation […]

Africa English

In the News

Mar 27, 2017

The Financial Times Reviews A Revolution Undone: Egypt’s Road Beyond Revolt by H.A. Hellyer

By H.A. Hellyer

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North Africa

In the News

Mar 26, 2017

Miller in the Arab Weekly: International Rhetoric on Libya is More of the Same

By Elissa Miller

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Libya

New Atlanticist

Mar 23, 2017

Fighting ISIS in Libya

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Libyan foreign minister seeks US engagement in effort to root out terrorists Amid concern that the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) is regrouping in Libya, Mohamed Taher Syala, the foreign minister in Libya’s internationally recognized, Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), said the United States must remain committed to defeating the terrorists in […]

Libya

In the News

Mar 23, 2017

Mezran in Foreign Policy: Libya Can’t Save Itself

By Karim Mezran

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Libya

MENASource

Mar 23, 2017

Sixth Anniversary of the US-Libya Intervention: A Model for the Future

By Nedal M. Swehli

Six years ago on March 19, 2011, the United States started its military intervention in Libya. In 2009, President Obama, in his inauguration speech, addressed the world’s dictators asking them to “unclench their fist” and said  that “America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman and child who seeks a future of peace […]

Libya

In the News

Mar 22, 2017

Mezran Quoted by Formiche on an Inclusive Strategy for Stabilization in Libya

By Karim Mezran

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Libya

MENASource

Mar 22, 2017

Russian Policy toward Libya: The Egyptian Factor

By Mark N. Katz

A great deal of media attention to Russian involvement in Libya arose as a result of a March 14 Reuters report that Moscow “appears to have deployed special forces to an airbase in western Egypt near the border with Libya.” These forces, reportedly consisting of a 22-man unit, deployed to support General Khalifa Haftar, who […]

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MENASource

Mar 20, 2017

Libya, The Time to Avoid Escalation is Now

By Karim Mezran and Mattia Toaldo

Libya risks a new escalation and a deepening of the division between the eastern region under General Khalifa Haftar and the rest of the country nominally under the control of an ever-weaker UN-backed government headed by Fayez Serraj. On March 3, fighting started in the Oil Crescent, the part of Libya’s central coast where 60 […]

Libya

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