The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is expected to gain renewed attention in 2017 following the election of incoming US President Donald Trump.
Tag: middle east
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Iraq and the international community will need not only to think about the “day after ISIS,” but also consider six months, one year, and one decade beyond.
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Currently, the Kurd force in the north is critical in expelling ISIS; however, the Iraqi government will want disputed territories returned.
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Above and beyond the micro-narrative of the Mosul affair, what is being overlooked is the deeper meaning of ISIS, and that it was already a threat before its capture of Mosul.
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Pierre Krähenbühl, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, discusses the failure to find political solutions to the ongoing Palestinian humanitarian crisis.
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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.
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Qualitative studies confirm that young people are concerned with matters that are essentially “political” in nature but take part in activities they themselves don’t necessarily perceive as political.
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Turkey and other similarly besieged countries cannot make the fatal mistake of failing to conduct a timely and realistic assessment of the threats they are facing.
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The reality is that Turkey faces a near impossible task in attempting to reduce its terrorist threat due to overlapping challenges depleting its resources.
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While the focus still remains on the threat ISIS poses as it controls territory, its defeat would also, paradoxically, increase risks to states and the probability of conflict.