Epstein Secrets

over" the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Reuters adds Trump told reporters he "told Egypt [the dispute] was a dangerous situation and that Cairo could end up 'blowing up that dam' and "said he had brokered an agreement to resolve the issue but that Ethiopia had broken the pact, forcing him to

nvicted of 'attempting to provide material support' to terrorists simply because he agreed to open social media accounts for the purported member of the Islamic State, known as ISIL and ISIS." Prosecutors asked US District Judge Charles Breyer "to apply a so-called `terrorism enhancement' that made him eligible f

could have been avoided had the Bush administration, in honoring its "Freedom Doctrine," engineered Mubarak's smooth departure several years before Cairo exploded. Obama inherited a dysfunctional relationship with Egypt from his predecessor. This is not to excuse the administration's faltering and so

d with what the Israeli analyst Orit Perlov describes as the two dominant Arab governing models: ISIS and SISI. EFTA00665418 ISIS, of course, is the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the bloodthirsty Sunni militia that has gouged out a new state from Sunni areas in Syria and Iraq. SISI, of course, is Abdel Fat

er an Al Sisi presidency. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia made a landmark visit on June 20th en route from Morocco. The aging monarch touched down in Cairo along with his ministers of finance and foreign affairs for a meeting with Al Sisi, which took place on Abdullah's plane. As the first foreign leade

carrying out a raid in a Sunni neighborhood in Tripoli. It seems that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which recently renamed itself the Islamic State (IS), and/or its allies have turned their sights on Lebanon. This recent flurry of attacks in Hezbollah-friendly neighborhoods and in support of Sun

on to give up on the Arab Spring Juan Cole 28 June -- Three and a half years ago, the world was riveted by massive crowds of youths mobilizing in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand an end to Egypt's dreary police state. We watched transfixed as a movement first ignited in Tunisia spread from one part

ian- Saudi meeting, Iraq, the Middle East and the whole world was jolted by the fall of Mosul, the second largest Iraqi city, to the group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The threat of the territorial disintegration of Iraq and Syria has become real for the world. The Arab response to this

blur of infection-led family migrations. “Anywhere in the world there was an epidemic, we would go,” he recalled. As the family bounced from Dehli to Cairo to Dakha to Nairobi, racing diseases one after another, Danny developed a vivid, energetic autodidactisism. He would collect knowledge from his paren

policy figures -they are missing the revolutionary, uniting force that animates them all. Networks. Whether we are trying to slice apart the roots of the Islamic State or slow Russian territorial dreams or understand narco- economics or hedge-fund finance - connectivity touches and defines each problem. New and esse