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Blinken Calls Hamas Changes to Cease-Fire Proposal Unworkable
New York Times· 6 days agoWhile the U.S. secretary of state kept up the pressure for a halt to the hostilities in Gaza, Israel...
Middle East and North Africa
Foreign Relations· 5 hours agoCFR experts discuss Iran’s attack on Israel and the escalation of the conflict. Steven Cook is the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle east and African studies, and author of a forthcoming ...
Iraq: Bad Habits
Strategy Page· 3 hours agoSeptember 8, 2020: The new prime minister (Mustafa al Kadhimi) is decidedly hostile to Iran. Such a meeting was important because Kadhimi is the first post-Saddam (2003) prime minister that ...
Israel: Plausible Paranoia And Righteous Retribution
Strategy Page· 1 day agoJune 18, 2019: Iran has, since a religious dictatorship took over in the 1980s, declared itself at war with Israel and the United States. Since 2012 Iran has been a major factor in the Syrian ...
How the State Department briefing room became ‘bizarroland’
Columbia Journalism Review· 5 days agoOn April 1, Israel hit an Iranian embassy complex in Syria with an air strike, killing more than a...
Syria: Sunnis Minimized
Strategy Page· 2 days agoThis is because of population shifts and the growing animosity between Sunnis and Shia because of the civil war and the intervention of Iran and its Shia mercenaries (mainly from Lebanon and ...
Yemen: Seeking Salvation With Spin
Strategy Page· 3 days agoThe new round of talks will include representatives of the last elected government of Yemen versus the rebels, who consist mainly of a coalition of Shia tribes from the northwest. The war would ...
Syria: Waiting For A Miracle
Strategy Page· 4 days agoMarch 25, 2019: Iran and Syria have made it official; Iran will assist the Assad government in regaining control of all of Syria and will back efforts to reopen all border crossings with Iraq ...
