Turkey’s apparent volte-face of realigning its Syria policy with those of Iran and the Assad regime seems dramatic even by Middle Eastern standards of geopolitical flux.
Tag: conflict
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Failure of the unity government to complete its tenure would likely further destabilize Afghanistan and threaten the gains made in the past 15 years.
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President Sirleaf’s government has made some strides in reforming the overall political culture of the country, but notable democratic failures are poised to hinder Liberia’s quest to move on from a legacy of conflict.
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Amid the devaluation of its currency, rising inflation, and the uncovering of more than $1 billion in hidden debt, Mozambique cannot afford further attacks on the economy.
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The drone strike against Mansour seems ill-advised—at least if the purpose was to weaken the Taliban militarily, and to protect US soldiers in Afghanistan and their local Afghan allies.
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Local level monitoring of the Burundi conflict reveals the conflict is not an ethnic one, despite many commentators describing its faultlines as such.
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Indications of a full cessation of military operations by external and internal warring parties do not reflect current realities on the ground.
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Since the ISIS capture of Mosul in June 2014, the Iraqi government has made the recapture of the city a key domestic goal in its fight to reclaim its territory and reassert its control over a restive minority Sunni population.
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An address by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the Munich Security Conference this month was a remarkable exception to the pervasive sense of helplessness and lack of strategy that hung over the annual conference during discussions about the world’s “boundless crises:” Syria, the refugee crisis, the threat from the so-called Islamic State, and the Ukraine crisis.
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The recent battle for Aleppo has the potential to tilt the balance of power between the warring parties in the region.
