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Apr 30, 2025

From Tripoli to Tehran: Lessons from Libya in US-Iran nuclear talks

By Yaseen Rashed

Twenty-one years later, the nuclear disarmament of Libya serves as a model for the United States in current nuclear negotiations with Iran.

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Apr 29, 2025

Why the US must not let Syria slip away

By Luke Wagner

Reconsidering the uneasy US-Syria relationship amid reports that Trump and al-Sharaa will meet during the US president’s Saudi Arabia visit.

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Scenes of destruction at the UN Blue Line, Southern Lebanon.

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Apr 29, 2025

Dispatch from the UN Blue Line: Israel’s ‘systematic destruction’ in Lebanon

By Nicholas Blanford

If Hezbollah refuses to disarm, Israel would almost certainly escalate its attacks possibly to the extent of resuming the war in Lebanon.

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Oct 9, 2023

Samaan on Bloomberg: On Middle East Crisis

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Fontenrose in Semafor: In Global South, leaders strike a different tone on Israel-Gaza conflict

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Oct 9, 2023

Charai in The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune: We are all Israelis

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The 1973 Yom Kippur War began as a surprise attack on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. On October 7, 2023, history has repeated itself.

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Oct 9, 2023

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Fontenrose in Bloomberg Politics: Israel Attacks Risk New Front With Iran Proxies in Shadow War

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Fontenrose on Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia: Red Six Solutions’ Fontenrose on Israel-Hamas War

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Hany Ghanem

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