Middle East Experience

55th Artillery Battalion clears tons of trash from 2 km. of waterway’s banks
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: IDF troops clean up Shikma stream

Bloomberg is an "American success story" who would be "very competitive" but it is unclear whether he could beat the Republican incumbent in his expected 2020 re-election race, Lewandowski said.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Trump confidant sees Michael Bloomberg as potential 2020 threat

While the Iranian political establishment could once have energized the disheartened public via the release of the detained Green Movement leaders, such a step is no longer likely to have the same impact it once would have had.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Freeing Green Movement leaders is losing value as trump card for Tehran

Hulusi Akar, Turkey’s new defense minister, could play a balancing role in the new regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Ex-army chief rises swiftly in Turkish civilian politics

Four years after the genocide against them, Yazidis mark its anniversary without a noticeable improvement in their situation.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Genocide still haunts Iraq's Yazidis

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's decision to cooperate with US sanctions has surprised a number of analysts and media in Iran.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Iranian media stunned by Iraqi PM's compliance with US sanctions

Although Turkey is suffering one of the worst currency crises in its history, no single mainstream Turkish media outlet has covered the development.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Mainstream Turkish media turn blind eye to country’s worst currency crisis

Absent tackling such root issues as banking and financial sector reform, Iran’s political economy is likely to continue to shape government policy to the detriment of the economy and the society as a whole.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: The interest group economics wreaking havoc on Iran's currency

Syrian Kurds could be a wild card in a possible showdown between Damascus and Ankara; Russia keeps the peace, for now, on the Israel-Syria border; Israel may have opened a new front of secret assassinations; the political economy of Iran’s protests.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Turkey’s time running out in Idlib

Lebanon’s parliament is set to discuss a bill to legalize the production of industrial hemp as part of efforts to boost the country’s ailing economy.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Lebanon looks for economic lift from cannabis