Tensions between Arab states and Iran, which erupted into a hot war overnight in Yemen with a Saudi-led military offensive against the Iranian-backed Houthi militants, are hanging over the ongoing negotiations between the P5+1 nations and Tehran in Lausanne, Switzerland. The talks, which revolve around Iran’s nuclear program, are expected...

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A coalition of Gulf states, led by Saudi Arabia, launched airstrikes against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen early today, The Washington Post reports: The strikes were a startling turn of events that came as the Houthis, in control of Yemen’s capital for months, barreled south toward the coastal city of...

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At least 21 people, most of them foreign tourists, were killed and dozens more injured when gunmen reportedly sympathetic to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) attacked a museum Wednesday located in the parliamentary compound in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. It was the deadliest terror attack on...

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The largest economic conference in Egypt’s history concluded Sunday (Arabic link) in the Sinai resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, resulting in commitments to large projects and agreements that exceeded the Egyptian government’s expectations. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was among the the hundreds of world leaders and business representatives at...

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Coming on the heels of the Arab Spring, not many believed that the popular protests that erupted in Syria in mid-March 2011 would turn into a prolonged and bloody war that would involve numerous domestic and international players. As the war enters its fifth year with no sign on the horizon for resolution, it...

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In an interview with The Washington Post published Thursday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi lauded security cooperation with Israel while expressing his concern about the Islamist extremism his country faces. Sisi blamed the Muslim Brotherhood for recent violence in the Sinai Peninsula and on the Egypt-Libya border, referring to the group as “the...

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Saudi Arabia has signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with South Korea, fueling fears of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the signing of the agreement increases “concerns on Capitol Hill and among U.S. allies that a deal with Iran, rather than...

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An Egyptian court ruled that Hamas is a terrorist organization, Reuters reported yesterday. An Egyptian court listed the Palestinian group Hamas as a terrorist organization, judicial sources said on Saturday, part of a sustained crackdown on Islamists in the most populous Arab state. … While a court ruled in January...

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Security cooperation between Sunni Arab nations and Israel “is now moving into the arena of public discourse in the Arab world,” according to Marc Sievers, a Diplomat-in-Residence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who wrote an analysis last Wednesday on a column written by prominent Saudi journalist Abdulrahman al-Rashed....

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America’s Arab allies are increasingly concerned about the emerging nuclear deal that the West has reportedly prepared with Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Friday. The direction of U.S. diplomacy with Tehran has added fuel to fears in some Arab states of a nuclear-arms race in the region,...

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