This post was written by CIP interns Benjamin Fagan and Victor Salcedo
The large-scale protests that paralyzed many Brazilian cities and captured the attention of the international press this summer have mostly fizzled out following...
Over the weekend, Iran’s naval commander called out Azerbaijan for buying missiles from Israel. While Iran has previously signaled that it did not approve of Azerbaijan’s cooperation with outside powers in building up its naval forces on the Caspian Sea, this seems to be the first time it has explicitly warned Azerbaijan about doing so. In his comments, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari highlighted the risk that Azerbaijan runs in trying to balance relations between its...
But the scale of the operation, which included helicopters, mortars and snipers posted on the slopes that envelop the mountain town, made it clear that this was not simply a manhunt, that the government had a larger agenda.
Below is a roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the MENA region over the last week
- The International Business Times (IBT) reports that the U.S. Agency for International Development efforts in the Sahel, an initiative called the Sahel Resiliency Program, is being delayed. Apparently, the delay is because no contractor has come forward to bid for the program. ...
Last week, Tajikistan's government hosted a high-level international water conference. Along with the platitudes that such conferences usually provide, the Tajikistan event was noteworthy for the participation of Uzbekistan. It wasn't the boilerplate diplomatic language (in Russian) used by Uzbekistan's delegate to the conference, the deputy minister for...