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Turkey’s Waning Welcome to Syrian Refugees

Turkish troops invaded northern Syria after President Trump moved U.S. forces out of their way. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says he wantsto create a “safe zone”for Syrian refugees - not…

Yasmine El Geressi 14 December 2019
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the ISIS leader, who at one point ruled over some eight million people, was killed in a U.S. Special Operations raid, on Saturday, October 26th, in Syria.(Getty)

Baghdadi’s Death Strengthens the Case for American Forces to Remain in Eastern Syria

The din of partisanship in Washington quieted briefly this weekend as figures across the political spectrum hailed the demise of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Early reports indicate intelligence…

Joseph Braude 01 November 2019

ISIS Is Already Rising From the Ashes

AU.S.-led military coalition succeeded in toppling the self-declared caliphate of ISIS, inIraqandSyriajust this past March. Remarkably, only around 2,000U.S.troops took part in this effort, a…

by Brian Katz* and Michael Carpenter 25 October 2019
This satellite image from Maxar Technologies shows a fire at a rocket launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province on Thursday. (AP)

While an Iranian Satellite Goes Up in Flames, France Explores an Economic Bailout for Tehran

The first week in September marked a new phase in the ongoing confrontation between Tehran and the West. While Israel uncovered a new Iranian base in Syria of unprecedented size, President Trump…

Joseph Braude 06 September 2019
A child protester seen waving a free Syrian flag during an evening demonstration in Idlib City demanding freedom for protocol prisoners imprisoned by the Syrian regime. (Getty)

Syria Changed the Iranian Way of War

In the spring of 2011, watching the groundswell of dissent that eventually came to be known as the Arab Spring. Iranhad experienced a similar moment two years earlier, when millions of citizens…

Ariane M. Tabatabai 24 August 2019
Venezuelan migrants wait to get a refugee application at the Peruvian border post at the binational border attention centre (CEBAF) in Tumbes on early June 14, 2019. (Getty)

Use Venezuelan Assets to Help Venezuelan Refugees

InVenezuela, a humanitarian crisis is coming to a boil. The country’s GDP has shrunk by double digits over the past few years, annual inflation runs to more than 80,000 percent, and 90 percent of the…

Amalia Perez and Selim Can Sazak 21 June 2019
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad meets with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran in this handout released by SANA on February 25, 2019. (Reuters)

How Iran Exploited Wars in the Middle East to Spread its Influence

Iran is ascendant in the Middle East, having exploited opportunities arising from the wars in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen by actively supporting proxies to spread its influence in a…

Yasmine El Geressi 14 June 2019
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit, Qingdao, China, June 9, 2018. (Reuters)

The US-Russia-Israel Summit: Can Russia Push Iran Out of Syria?

Earlier this month, The White House announced that U.S., Israeli and Russian national security advisers would meet in Jerusalem in June to discuss regional security issues. According to the…

Hanin Ghaddar 14 June 2019

Conflict and Terror in a Warming Middle East

Climate change, by altering the world’s physical and ecological landscape, is also changing its geopolitical landscape. Recent years have witnessed the outbreak of multiple wars in some of the…

Yasmine El Geressi 01 March 2019

Syria's National Museum Reopens Doors in War-Scarred Damascus

Syria’s National Museum of Damascus opened its rich trove of antiquities to visitors again on Sunday, seven years after war forced them to close and months after the government recaptured all rebel…

Kinda Makieh  02 November 2018
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Lebanon-Israel talks: diplomacy under bombs

20 May 2026

Beyond Israel's immediate security aims lies a much larger struggle over Lebanon's future—one that will unfold over years, in multiple stages, and cannot be reduced to a simple question of force.

Michael Horowitz
Lamine Yamal raises the Palestinian flag during Barcelona's celebrations of their Spanish League title in Barcelona, ​​2026. AP
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How Gaza pushed Israel out of Europe’s moral order

18 May 2026

Football star Lamine Yamal's hoisting of Palestine's flag, and the Eurovision audience's booing of Israel's contestant, show how Israel has lost its PR edge

Shadi Alaa Aldin
Axel Rangel Garcia
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Why the US clings to a failed siege strategy in Cuba

15 May 2026

Crippling US sanctions on Havana were designed to force regime change, but six decades of crippling embargo have only cemented it

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra
A gas facility off the Suez Desert Road outside Cairo, Egypt, on 1 September 2020.
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Egypt repays energy firms with an eye on self sufficiency

19 May 2026

Cairo hopes to gain the trust of partners through its regular payments to energy firms, so that they will be more inclined to invest in gas exploration activities

Sharif Mohammad
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The philosopher king of Palantir: Alex Karp says the quiet part out loud on X

18 May 2026

The tech CEO's manifesto, where he champions US military dominance and the use of AI weapons, has been described by some as the 'ramblings of a supervillain'

Bryn Haworth

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