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Syria: Disintegration
Strategy Page· 6 hours agoJune 13, 2023: There continues to be less fighting in Syria despite the continued presence of numerous mutually antagonistic groups in many parts of the country. Most of the ...
Iran's allies in Iraq are firing at Israel. What if they draw blood?
Reuters via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoIran-backed Shi'ite armed groups in Iraq have ramped up rocket and missile attacks on Israel in...
Syria: Peace, Poverty and Puzzling Politics
Strategy Page· 7 days agoMay 9, 2023: In the last week Syria was visited by the president of Iran reaffirming support for the Assad government. Without the $30 billion Iran spent since 2011 to keep ...
Syria: Deals To Be Made
Strategy Page· 3 days agoISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) also continues to contest control of remote areas in eastern Syria. Baida covers 500,000 square kilometers ( ...
Israel: The War With Iran
Strategy Page· 8 hours agoMay 8, 2018: The Mossad operation in January that got half a ton of top-secret Iranian nuclear weapons program documents out of Iran and back to Israel in less than 24 hours has provided Iranian ...
Russia: Trying A Little Tenderness
Strategy Page· 1 day agoJanuary 19, 2021: Russia continued its post-Cold War decline in 2020 and covid19 played a minor role. The space program continued to shrink with fewer satellites put into orbit. The ceasefire ...
The U.S. Needs a New Purpose in the Middle East
Foreign Policy Magazine· 2 days agoRefugee Agency. The camp, which had been decommissioned in 2017, had reopened in the fall after Syrian Kurds fled to Iraq seeking safety from Turkish ...
‘We Did It Too’: The Ugliest Excuse for Israel
The American Conservative· 4 days agoIt has become a familiar refrain from U.S. officials and Israel-defenders, and it goes something like this: The Israeli military has gone out of its way...
The other border crisis Biden needs to worry about
Politico· 5 hours agoThe count doesn’t distinguish between militants and civilians, though women and children mark up a significant number of those killed. IRANIAN GENERAL KILLED: Israeli airstrikes< ...
Russia: Slow Roll In Syria
Strategy Page· 7 days agoSeptember 11, 2018: In Syria, even the sudden arrival of Iranian mercenaries to reinforce Syrian forces in the northwest is not enough to start the final battle of the civil ...