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Defense / Middle East Security
US weapons will soon flow to Kurds as they isolate ISIS fighters in RaqqaKurdish factions within the Syrian Democratic Forces will soon be getting U.S. arms for their battle with the Islamic State in Syria, according to officials in Baghdad. Despit...
By Adam Routh
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Defense / Middle East Security
Syrian Kurds are now armed with sensitive US weaponrySyrian Kurdish fighters are newly armed with sophisticated American combat equipment as they close in on the Islamic State's stronghold in Raqqa, Military Times has learned, w...
By Adam Routh
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Trump on Saudi Arabia
President Donald Trump has said that Saudi Arabia “blew up the World Trade Center” and wants “women as slaves and to kill gays.” He has also insisted that the oil-rich Arab ki...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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President Trump’s Affection For Despots
President Trump continues to praise strongmen and dictators across the globe, and his embrace of these despots sets off alarm bells at home and abroad. President Trump calls ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
In The News
President Trump met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the White House. Ilan Goldenberg, director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Se...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump plays peacemaker, hosting Abbas at the White House
President Donald Trump will play peacemaker at the White House on Wednesday, meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas as part of an effort to end the long-running Palestin...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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CNAS Press Note: Palestinian President Abbas Visits the White House
Press Note
As Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas prepares to meet with President Trump, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Middle East Security Program Director Ilan Goldenberg h...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Kurds in Syria call for no-fly zone to prevent Turkish attacks
Syrian Kurds, Kurdish activists on the social media and the People’s Protection Units (YPG) have been calling for establishing a no fly zone since 26 April, under the hash tag...
By Nicholas Heras
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Kurds call on US to set up no-fly zone after Turkish attacks
Tensions between Turkey and the United States are poised to escalate after the Turkish air force carried out a series of pre-dawn strikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq’s S...
By Nicholas Heras
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Is The Afghan War Going To Be Another Vietnam For The U.S.?
Rachel Martin talks to Chris Kolenda, a former senior adviser to the Defense Department, about the failures of the U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan, and how it risks beco...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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The Trump administration just quietly admitted that the Iran deal is workingi
In February, President Donald Trump said that the Obama administration’s nuclear agreement with Iran was “one of the worst deals I’ve ever seen.” His comments were a direct ec...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Erdogan charts victory lap in Washington
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s push for international legitimacy after narrowly winning a fraud-tainted referendum on expanding the powers of his office is gaining g...
By Nicholas Heras
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Syrian Democratic Forces set up post-ISIS Raqqa council
The Kurdish-Arab alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), leading a multi-pronged battle against ISIS near the city of Raqqa, announced on Tuesday the creation of a “ci...
By Nicholas Heras
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Trump delights in watching the U.S. military display its strengthAmid the often jarring inconsistency of President Trump’s foreign policy, one thing has always been crystal clear: He loves a big show of American military force. “You gotta k...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Middle East Security
Trump Gives Generals More Freedom on ISIS FightU.S. military commanders are stepping up their fight against Islamist extremism as President Donald Trump’s administration urges them to make more battlefield decisions on the...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Democratic Syria hawks love Trump's airstrikes
The question tormented Obama administration officials for years: Should we strike at Syrian dictator Bashar Assad or not? Under President Barack Obama, the answer was always n...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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After reports of civilian deaths, U.S. military struggles to defend air operations in war against militants
The Pentagon has struggled in recent weeks to effectively explain what lies behind a surge in reported civilian casualties in its air campaign against the Islamic State, fueli...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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In major foreign policy move, Trump orders airstrike in Syria
In what is seen as a foreign policy aboutface, President Donald Trump last night ordered a missile strike on an airfield in Syria, after the use of chemical weapons by Bashar ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump’s Syria shift confounds foreign policy experts
With his first major military action, President Donald Trump has, once again, confounded experts struggling to interpret his approach to the world. Until now he has refused to...
By Richard Fontaine
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‘Horrible’ pictures of suffering moved Trump to action on Syria
When President Trump began receiving his intelligence briefings in January, his team made a request: The president, they said, was a visual and auditory learner. Would the bri...
By Richard Fontaine
