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H E WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of ...
Clashes in Syria between Bedouin tribes, government forces, and the Druze minority have left dozens dead, raising fears of ...
What a difference eight years makes. During President Donald Trump’s first term, then-Sen. Marco Rubio pushed the president to expand his human rights diplomatic agenda.
The Financial Action Task Force has released a groundbreaking report that introduces the concept of state-sponsored terrorism ...
A video clip circulating on social media in recent months shows Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Shara, astride a handsome ...
A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...
The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with over 30 million people living across Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. The PKK ...
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Iraq and the Fires of Its Neighbors
I once asked a man who had worked in Saddam Hussein’s palace whether he had ever heard him swear. “No, he did not have a habit of swearing. He would fall silent when he became angry, but sparks would ...
MOHAMMAD AYATOLLAHI TABAAR is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Associate Professor of International Affairs at Texas A ...
Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony Friday in northern Iraq, the first ...
The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...
For decades, Lebanon has been torn apart by internal division and external conflict. There may currently be a narrow window ...