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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Principlist Ebrahim Raisi was elected Iran’s next president on 18 June 2021. He will succeed moderate President Hassan Rouhani in ...
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In the seventh in a series of TRANSITION 2021 memos examining the Middle East and North Africa, Soner Cagaptay offers guidelines f ...
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Ebrahim Raisi’s election as president of Iran came as no surprise. All those who might have been a threat to him were disqualified ...
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