In the New Syria, Religious Minorities Swing Between Hope and Fear
Syria’s Islamist leaders pledged to respect religious freedom despite their radical past. Many Christians and Shiites are ...
Iraqi militias eager for three-way hostage exchange for Israeli-Russian Elizabeth Tsurkov - report
Elizabeth Tsurkov disappeared in March 2023, with Kataib Hezbollah, an organization closely associated with Iran, being ...
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The Middle East That President Trump Has Inherited
The Middle East needs U.S. foreign policy to address two key threats: a weakened but unpredictable Iran and the resurgence of Sunni extremism in Syria. As President Trump begins his second term, he ...
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Regime change in Syria has Iraqi factions backtracking on their push for U.S. withdrawal
Many in Iraq fear that IS could take advantage of the security vacuum to stage a comeback while Syria’s new leaders are still consolidating their control over the country and forming a national army.
Big winners at Sundance 2025: An Iraq War satire, profiles of Black farmers, a true-crime dissection
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Iraq arrests former security official over execution of Shiite cleric who opposed Saddam Hussein
Iraq’s National Security Agency says it has arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 ...
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Iraq Backtracking on US Military Withdrawal After Syria Regime Change
The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...
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Will Iran and Russia’s Growing Partnership Go Nuclear?
NICOLE GRAJEWSKI is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate ...
Israel preps for Thursday hostage release, Trump Mideast envoy in Israel
Sisi says Egypt will not take part in the displacement of Palestinians • $50m. taxpayer dollars about to fund condoms in Gaza ...
Regime change in Syria has Iraqi factions backtracking on push for US withdrawal
The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...
Trump foreign policy 2.0: Unpredictable president confronts unstable world
President Donald Trump returned to the White House, facing a world that is arguably more complicated than when he left the building four years earlier. The war in ...