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Morning Brief: Fighting continues in Tripoli

Fighting continues in Tripoli Top story: Confusion reigned in the Libyan capital of Tripoli after Muammar al-Qaddafi's son Saif al-Islam made a surprise visit to a hotel housing foreign journalists, and pro-Qaddafi military units remained in control...

Published Tue, Aug 23 2011 5:03 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Morning Brief: Qaddafi remains defiant as compound is ransacked

Qaddafi remains defiant as compound is ransacked Top news: Libya's rebels ransacked Muammar al-Qaddafi's Tripoli compound on Tuesday, tearing down symbols of his regime and carrying off his possesssions. However, the colonel was nowhere to be...

Published Wed, Aug 24 2011 5:38 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

An explosive scandal in the Caymans

When you see a headline about the premier of the Cayman Islands being arrested in a corruption probe, it's natural to assume it has something to do with the country's lucrative, but often shady offshore banking sector. And indeed, McKeeva Bush...

Published Tue, Dec 11 2012 10:02 AM by FP Passport

Tunisians frustrated but engaged

Just over a year since Tunisia's October 23, 2011 Constituent Assembly elections, long lines of patient citizens who emerged beaming from polls last October have given way to new demonstrations and general strikes -- this time against the Ennahda...

Published Tue, Dec 11 2012 10:50 AM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: Middle East, North Africa, Middle East Top Story

Reading Turkish politics from a soap opera

Amidst intense public controversy, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is moving to ban the widely popular television series Muhtesem Yuzyil ( The Magnificent Century ). Critics of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP government...

Published Fri, Dec 07 2012 9:06 AM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: Eastern Europe, Middle East, Turkey, Democracy, Middle East Poster 2

Chemical red lines on Syria

Despite the estimated 40,000 civilian deaths in the Syrian conflict, the United States has shown little appetite for a Libya-style intervention, this time without United Nations Security Council approval. The Obama administration has been candid, however...

Published Wed, Dec 05 2012 6:22 AM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: al Qaeda, Middle East, Obama Administration, Bush Administration, North Africa, Syria, Barack Obama, Middle East Poster 4

Did Netanyahu or Obama doom the two-state solution?

With his decision to oppose the U.N. General Assembly's granting Palestine non-member state observer status, U.S. President Barack Obama leaves no doubt he is not modifying his pre-election position that "There is no daylight between Israel and...

Published Mon, Dec 03 2012 7:55 AM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: Middle East, Israel/Palestine, Arab World, Thumbs, Middle East Poster 4

Obama's three options

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The Obama administration's opposition to yesterday's United Nations General Assembly vote on the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) bid for non-member observer state status once again places...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2012 2:09 PM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: Diplomacy, Middle East, Israel/Palestine, North Africa, Arab World, Middle East Poster 4

Egyptian labor between Morsi and Mubarak

While few noticed in the midst of an intense political crisis, Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi issued another controversial decree recently: Decree no. 97 of 2012, introducing a few important amendments to Egypt's long-standing 1976 labor law...

Published Wed, Nov 28 2012 12:24 PM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: Law, Middle East, Economics, Labor, North Africa, Egypt, Middle East Poster 4

Egypt’s President Morsi backpedals to stem crisis

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi worked to diffuse a crisis sparked by a decree extending his powers meeting with the Supreme Judicial Council on Monday. In five hours of talks with senior judges, Morsi appeared to pull back from his attempts to assert...

Published Tue, Nov 27 2012 5:51 AM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: Middle East, North Africa, Arab World, Mideast Brief

The shining salad bowl on a fenced-off hill: Foreign-policy highlights of the Tea Party debate

Last night's CNN-Tea Party Republican debate did little to disabuse anyone of the notion that the Tea Party movement is not overly concerned with anything happening outside U.S. borders -- other than building a great big fence on those borders. While...

Published Tue, Sep 13 2011 8:18 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Flash Points

Morning Brief: Marathon Kabul siege ends

Marathon Kabul siege ends Top news: A 20-hour siege of Kabul's diplomatic enclave ended on Tuesday when the last of the attackers hold up in a building near the U.S. embassy was killed. The gunmen had holed up inside the under-construction tower,...

Published Wed, Sep 14 2011 5:18 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Introducing "Decline Watch"

We actually kicked this off with David's post yesterday, but we're now making it official. In this regular Passport feature, we will be tracking signs of U.S. economic and political decline -- and the "rise of the rest," especially China...

Published Thu, Sep 15 2011 9:11 AM by FP Passport

Friday Photo: La Dolce Ganesha

Indian Hindu devotees prepare to immerse an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesh into the Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad on September 11, 2011. Hindu devotees bring home and offer prayers in temporary temples built for idols of Lord Ganesha in...

Published Fri, Sep 16 2011 4:53 PM by FP Passport

So how are those efforts to close Gitmo going?

Throughout his first term, many of President Obama's disappointed supporters charged that his administration had never really followed through on efforts to implement his January 2009 executive order closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay...

Published Tue, Jan 29 2013 10:47 AM by FP Passport

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Morning Brief: Fighting continues in Tripoli

Morning Brief: Qaddafi remains defiant as compound is ransacked

An explosive scandal in the Caymans

Tunisians frustrated but engaged

Reading Turkish politics from a soap opera

Chemical red lines on Syria

Did Netanyahu or Obama doom the two-state solution?

Obama's three options

Egyptian labor between Morsi and Mubarak

Egypt’s President Morsi backpedals to stem crisis

The shining salad bowl on a fenced-off hill: Foreign-policy highlights of the Tea Party debate

Morning Brief: Marathon Kabul siege ends

Introducing "Decline Watch"

Friday Photo: La Dolce Ganesha

So how are those efforts to close Gitmo going?