Indications of a full cessation of military operations by external and internal warring parties do not reflect current realities on the ground.
Tag: middle east
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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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According to Federica Mogherini, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the representatives of the Quartet–comprised of the United States, Russia, the EU, and the United Nations–met on the margins of the 2016 Munich Security Conference and agreed to work on a joint report which will include recommendations for a re-launching of the two-state vision.
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In the struggle to unify Libya, conflict continues to plague the center of the country as militants linked to the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) continue to take control of territory and threaten the critical oil processing and export sites in the Gulf of Sirte.
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As the price of oil continues to drop and Iran tries to regain its pre-sanctions market share, its enmity with Saudi Arabia will increasingly be economic, as well as political and religious.
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The most concerning issue in 2016 to date has been the developing crisis between predominantly Shiite Muslim Iran and Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia.
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Lebanon’s security providers are connected through a web of overlapping arrangements, in which the boundaries between public and private identities of agents blur.
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Farea Al-Muslimi, Visiting Fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center and Chairman of the youth-oriented Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies, discusses the situation in Yemen ahead of scheduled peace talks.
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Since Paris and the Russia-Turkey incident, the stakes have dramatically increased. Rhetoric has spiked as most sides have attempted to position themselves to achieve their specific goals, without sparking a wider conflict.
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The former head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen, Cedric Schweizer, and ICRC Senior Adviser Claude Bruderlein discuss their experiences of humanitarian negotiations on the frontlines of conflicts.