News 14 Jan 2020 Yigal Amir's wife registers new party Says she wants retrial for her husband; Source: Jerusalem Post Full Article: Yigal Amir's wife registers new party Meet the Middle East
News 31 Dec 1969 Intel: How a new report bolsters US case that Iran attacked Saudi Arabia A confidential United Nations report rebutted claims from Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels that they were responsible for a missile attack on two Saudi oil facilities in September. Source: Al Monitor… Meet the Middle East
News 31 Dec 1969 Iraqi PM quietly working to keep US troops in country Iraq’s caretaker prime minister privately does not want US troops to withdraw, several American and Iraqi sources familiar with the situation told Al-Monitor. Source: Al Monitor Full Article: Iraqi PM… Meet the Middle East
News 31 Dec 1969 Iran's fractious hard-liners hold edge as parliamentary election approaches Despite their divisions, Iran's conservatives and hard-liners are still likely to dominate the legislative elections next month, as many progressives are rejecting the vote entirely. Source: Al Monitor Full Article:… Meet the Middle East
News 31 Dec 1969 Are Sisi’s state assets law amendments well-intentioned? Egypt is to pass amendments to a law that would give Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the right to transfer the ownership of state assets to Egypt’s sovereign wealth fund… Meet the Middle East
News 31 Dec 1969 Turkish-Russia partnership in Libya likely to be to Moscow’s advantage Analysts say any Turkish-Russian “partnership” in Libya could end up working more to Moscow’s advantage than Ankara’s, as was the case in Syria. Source: Al Monitor Full Article: Turkish-Russia partnership… Meet the Middle East
News 31 Dec 1969 Personal ties on the march in Turkey’s civilian-military relations The extraordinary personalization of Turkey’s civilian-military relations is deinstitutionalizing the Turkish military structure and causing internal power struggles within the army ranks. Source: Al Monitor Full Article: Personal ties on… Meet the Middle East
News 31 Dec 1969 Iraqi protests got caught in an Iranian-American war The escalation between US and Iran left Iraqis trapped with many nightmares threatening their protests, economy and country’s unity. Source: Al Monitor Full Article: Iraqi protests got caught in an… Meet the Middle East
News 31 Dec 1969 Why Israel must end chief rabbi’s monopoly on Judaism The State of Israel must put a stop to the monopoly held by the Chief Rabbi on deciding who is Jewish, who can marry who and who can immigrate to… Meet the Middle East
News 31 Dec 1969 Ankara divides Syrian rebels on fighting in Libya Turkey’s plan to recruit mercenaries from Syria for the Libyan battlefield is gaining traction but appears to creating rifts among the Syrian opposition as fighters are lured to Libya by… Meet the Middle East
