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Nov 11, 2019

Slavin quoted in JNS on Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 JCPOA

By Atlantic Council

Arms Control
Conflict

Inflection Points

Nov 10, 2019

Hopes and gains from Berlin Wall’s fall at risk

By Frederick Kempe

If US and European leaders don’t recover the common purpose they shared at that time – and there is yet little sign they will – this weekend’s Berlin Wall anniversary is more a moment for concern than celebration.

China
Europe & Eurasia

SyriaSource

Nov 8, 2019

The death of Baghdadi: How ISIS used al-Qaeda’s mistakes to grow a caliphate

By Amanda E. Rogers

Optimistic predictions about the end of the Islamic State (ISIS) surged in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s October 27 press conference announcing the death of the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but prove misguided in the long term. The threat posed by ISIS remains high, particularly outside the para-state’s previously held territories in […]

Extremism
Iraq

In the News

Nov 8, 2019

Cohen in The National Interest: America’s Great-Power Problems Will Come Back to Haunt It in the Middle East

By Atlantic Council

Conflict
Crisis Management

In the News

Nov 8, 2019

Bryza in Financial Times: Look elsewhere for British Steel’s saviour

By Atlantic Council

China
Economy & Business

In the News

Nov 7, 2019

Haddad in the Economist’s “Emmanuel Macron on Europe’s fragile place in a hostile world”

By Atlantic Council

Europe & Eurasia
NATO

In the News

Nov 7, 2019

Bel joins CBC News to discuss Macron’s view of NATO

By Atlantic Council

Defense Policy
European Union

In the News

Nov 7, 2019

Shaffer in Middle East Institute: The fall of the other wall

By Atlantic Council

Iran
Middle East

SyriaSource

Nov 7, 2019

Journalists in northeast Syria fear the return of state security services

By Dan Wilkofsky

US President Donald Trump’s decision in early October to withdraw American troops from the Syria-Turkey border put the US’s local partner in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS, Daesh), the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in an unenviable position. Faced with an offensive by Turkey, NATO’s second largest military, the SDF struck a deal with […]

Conflict
Media

MENASource

Nov 7, 2019

Saudi-backed Yemeni government and separatists sign power-sharing agreement

By MENASource

On Tuesday, November 5, the Hadi government signed a power-sharing agreement with southern separatists in Riyadh. The separatists and Hadi-led Yemen Government are backed by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, specifically by the United Arab Emirates. Infighting between them further fractured the civil war in August when the separatists seized Aden from Saudi-led forces. It […]

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