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In Washington, Israel Stays Quiet As Anger Grows Over Saudi Arabia And Khashoggi
As the days drag by without a Saudi explanation for what happened to Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist who disappeared inside the Saudi Consulate in Turkey and ha...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
‘America First’ doesn’t work without American valuesSaudi Arabia’s apparent killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — and the Trump administration’s haphazard response — is an unmistakable sign that U.S. foreign policy has swung ...
By Vance Serchuk
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New details emerge in Khashoggi case as Pompeo tours Ankara
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the country’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, in Ankara today to discuss the latest d...
By Nicholas Heras
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Moscow, Ankara say Syria buffer going ahead despite missed deadline
Russia and Turkey said Tuesday their deal to set up a buffer zone for the last major Syrian rebel bastion of Idlib was still on course, despite jihadists missing a deadline to...
By Nicholas Heras
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Fate of Syria's Idlib uncertain as extremist group fails to withdraw from proposed buffer zone
The fate of a deal between Russia and Turkey to avoid a Syrian government offensive in Idlib was uncertain on Monday, after Damascus suggested rebel groups were not fully comp...
By Nicholas Heras
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Jihadists fail to quit Syria buffer, throwing deal into doubt
Jihadists in Syria's Idlib failed to meet a Monday deadline to leave a planned buffer zone ringing the country's last rebel bastion, casting fresh doubt over a deal to avert b...
By Nicholas Heras
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Syria buffer free of heavy arms as jihadists face deadline
A planned buffer zone in northwest Syria has been cleared of heavy armaments ahead of time but a new deadline loomed Wednesday for the tougher task of Turkey convincing jihadi...
By Nicholas Heras
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The Pentagon Used To Hide US Troops In Syria. Now It's Posting Videos Of Them On Twitter.
This time last year, the US military was refusing to admit that there were four times as many troops in Syria as it had disclosed previously, insisting they were serving as te...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump's New Iran Strategy, Inspired By The Cold War, Calls For "Maximum Pressure"
The Trump administration is reaching back into Cold War history as it develops an increasingly aggressive strategy against Iran — one that could destabilize the regime in Tehr...
By Eric Brewer
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CNAS Experts Comment on New Assad Regime Offensive
The Assad regime with Russian and Iranian support announced this weekend its new offensive in Greater Idlib – a movement that could become the most catastrophic humanitarian d...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Trump Rewrites Rules of the Game in Middle East Peace Talks
Borders. Jerusalem. Palestinian refugees. One by one, the U.S. is taking core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict off the table. President Donald Trump’s administration...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Russia Offers a Carrot to Embattled Syrian Rebels
More than 2,000 rebels who had been fighting the Syrian army abandoned their positions along a rocky outcrop here and surrendered their heavy weaponry to Russian officers in J...
By Nicholas Heras
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Why US talks with the Taliban are suddenly on the table
The United States has a lot invested in Afghanistan: a longer war than both world wars and its intervention in Vietnam combined, more than $2 trillion, and more than 2,370 ser...
By Nicholas Heras
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Inside the Secret Taliban Talks to End America’s Longest War
If the United States’ longest foreign war actually draws to a negotiated close, a significant amount of credit will go to a former U.S. Army colonel and a former senior U.S. d...
By Chris Kolenda
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Syrian army raises flag above city considered as birthplace of uprising against Assad
Syrian government forces hoisted their red, black and white flag as they took control of the southern city of Daraa on Thursday, quashing a rebellion that began there in 2011 ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Long odds for peace as Trump roils Mideast with embassy move
President Donald Trump’s prospects for brokering the Mideast peace “deal of the century” plunged ever deeper Monday as the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem opened amid bloodshed in G...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Europe is threatening to fight Trump on Iran sanctions
When the Trump administration withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, it notified the world that companies doing business with Iran have between three and six months t...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Israel-Iran flare-up raises spectre of major confrontation
Deadly strikes by Israel against alleged Iranian sites in Syria have raised fears of a dramatic escalation in regional conflict, but the situation remains shrouded by conflict...
By Nicholas Heras
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Kushner shares Jerusalem embassy spotlight
Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Jared Kushner has served as the administration’s point person in the Middle East, eclipsing even the secretary of state in some me...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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CNAS and Brookings Announce Formation of Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward Gaza
Washington, May 10 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy today announced the creation of their Future o...
By Madeline Christian