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Syria buffer free of heavy arms as jihadists face deadline
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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"
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Press Release
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
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Israel fears ‘explosion of violence’ as US prepares to open embassy in Jerusalem
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Police in Israel have started patrols and security sweeps of a southern Jerusalem neighbourhood, anxiously preparing for a US embassy inauguration that Israelis and Palestinia...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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American and Iranian hard-liners await the end of the nuclear deal
We are entering the final stretch ahead of President Trump's likely decision to pull out of the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. His administration has to decide by...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Chatty Pompeo strikes early contrast with reclusive Tillerson
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Mike Pompeo, the new secretary of state, is leaning hard into the side of the job his predecessor seemed to hate the most: public relations. Within hours of being confirmed la...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Can Macron Keep Trump From Shredding the Iran Deal?
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As if the upcoming nuclear summit with North Korea, the latest U.S. intervention in Syria, and President Trump’s controversial new national security team weren’t generating en...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Bolton dealing to build an Arab military force in Syria
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President Donald Trump's newly minted national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo are among those spearheading a push to build a coalition...
By Nicholas Heras
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Syria: US in talks over Arab force to replace American troops
The Trump administration is renewing an effort to replace US troops in Syria with an Arab force, but the proposal faces substantial obstacles and could potentially exacerbate ...
By Nicholas Heras
