The leaders of Jordan, Egypt and Iraq came together in Baghdad on 27 June 2021 for a much-anticipated meeting. The third summit be ...
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Drones are currently the “hot weapons.” They occupy roughly the same position as Patriot missiles after the first Gulf war, (1) se ...
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On June 29, the executive boards of the IMF and the World Bank’s International Development Association approved Sudan’s eligibilit ...
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On July 10, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2585 to renew humanitarian access to northwest Syria from Turkey for six mon ...
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The terrorism landscape looks rather different today than it did when al-Qaeda operatives, some based in Europe, planned and carri ...
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Each year, the U.N. Security Council resumes negotiations to renew its resolution to allow cross-border assistance into Syria via ...
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President Joe Biden is starting to do what every administration talks about but never manages to really do: Get U.S. forces out of ...
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This week, Saudi deputy defense minister Prince Khalid bin Salman will meet with U.S. officials in Washington, the kingdom’s most ...
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Sometime before July 10, the UN Security Council will vote on whether to extend the annual mandate for cross-border assistance int ...
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Following the contention over the Guardian Council’s policies and calls to both boycott and mobilise for elections, cleric and Chi ...
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