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Will Iraq Be Caught In The Crossfire Of Trump’s Iran Policy?
...gures including leaders of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs). The PMUs were formed to fight Islamic State terrorists in 2014 but have also encompassed many of the Iran-backed militias. The PMUs, by law, are part of Iraq’s official security apparatus but the line between them and the militias has so...
Volume: 67Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2024 -
Tunisia’s Presidential Election: Strongman Saied Set For Re-election
...tober, observers say President Kais Saied is poised for re-election, with most of his critics and other candidates behind bars. Tunisia, which has long prided itself as the birthplace of the Arab Spring, was briefly touted as the only successful democracy in the region (MEES, 24 October 2014). But th...
Volume: 67Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2024 -
Egypt’s New Petroleum & Electricity Ministers Face Mounting In-Tray Challenges
...thority and the Shipbuilding Company in Ismailia and Port Said. He has also served in several leadership roles, including as Chairman of the Cairo Airport Company (2013-2014), the Holding Company for Airports and Air Navigation (2014-2016), and the Cairo Glass Manufacturing Company (since 2016). EC...
Volume: 67Issue: 27Published at Fri, 05 Jul 2024 -
Chevron Inches Towards Shale-Focused Algeria Entry
...at with Chevron, was the site of Algeria’s first trial shale well back in 2014. Whilst the initial well produced “excellent reserves,” shale plans were abandoned in the face of subsequent protests (MEES, 23 January 2015). Sonatrach’s MoU with Exxon also references “study[ing] the existing op...
Volume: 67Issue: 25Published at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 -
Iran Mourns Raisi & Abdollahian As Succession Speculation Mounts
...preme Leader, only the second in the Islamic Republic’s history after its founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1979-89) is rumored to be ill. He was treated for cancer in 2014. In recent years, he has grown weary of what he and others see as Western plans for regime change, increasingly throwing his we...
Volume: 67Issue: 21Published at Fri, 24 May 2024 -
Kuwait’s Emir Suspends Parliament;Can He Quell Tumultuous Divisions?
...ss a crucial debt law since 2017 due to opposition by MPs, these onerous spending commitments saw Kuwait rack up some $108bn in cumulative deficits over 2014-2022 (see chart 2). A 2024-2027 government program published earlier this year envisages a further surging of deficits to a colossal total of KD...
Volume: 67Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2024 -
Kurdistan Slams Baghdad Over Continued Pipeline Closure
...rkuk-Ceyhan crude oil export pipeline which has been offline since the Islamic State damaged it in 2014 (see map, p10 & MEES, 12 April). Iraq optimistically says the pipeline could be up and running by the end of this month – mere days away – and will be capable of exporting 350,000 b/d. MEES un...
Volume: 67Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2024 -
Iraq Awards Akkas To Ukrainian Unknowns
...rce majeure in 2014 when the field was overrun by Islamic State militants, and even after the area was retaken by Iraqi security forces cited security concerns and refused to resume work. More recently Saudi Aramco was tapped for the project amid a thawing of relations between the two Gulf ne...
Volume: 67Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2024 -
Egypt-Turkey Talks: Gaza Conflict Tops Agenda As Relations Thaw
...RMALIZATION The landmark presidential visits are the first since relations soured over a decade ago after Sisi ousted Turkey-backed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in a 2013 military coup (MEES, 5 July 2013), assuming the presidency a year later (MEES, 26 June 2014). In the years that followed, Turkey gr...
Volume: 67Issue: 17Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2024 -
Libya’s Mabruk: 2025 Restart?
...France’s TotalEnergies reveals in its 2023 annual report on 29 March that output at Libya’s Mabruk field will restart next year at best. The field in Libya’s Sirte Basin oil heartland has not produced since being overrun and badly damaged by IS-affiliated militants in December 2014 (MEES, 6 Ma...
Volume: 67Issue: 14Published at Fri, 05 Apr 2024 -
Yemen’s Houthis Revive Threats to Saudi Arabia on Conflict’s Nine-Year Anniversary
...lks and captured the capital Sanaa (MEES, 19 December 2014). But now, nine years later, the battle-hardened Houthis are stronger than ever, having consolidated their positions in Yemen and secured more Iranian backing. As Saudi Arabia has sought to extricate itself from Yemen’s conflict and thaw re...
Volume: 67Issue: 13Published at Fri, 29 Mar 2024