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May 10, 2013

Israel
Middle East Matters This Week: Israel Strikes Damascus, Egypt Reshuffles Government, and World Powers Scramble

Significant Developments Syria. Hassan Nasrallah announced yesterday that Syria would transfer strategic “game-changing” weapons to the Lebanese group Hezbollah. The televised speech was a response …

An explosion in Damascus (SANA/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Robert Danin Middle East Matters

December 20, 2022

2022 in Review
Five Foreign Policy Stories to Watch in 2023

As 2022 comes to a close, here are five foreign policy news stories to follow in the coming year.

Chess China Taiwan
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

January 7, 2011

Human Rights
Is Tunisia Next?

A man puts up an electoral poster of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunis. (Louafi Larbi/Courtesy Reuters) Tunisia is not a very important country, but the fall of its twenty-three year old di…

Is Tunisia Next?
Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

May 24, 2013

Iran
Iran’s Presidential Candidates: Two Are Terrorist Suspects, One Boasts of Beating Students

The disqualification of most of the men who sought to run in Iran’s presidential election has left a narrow field distinguished by allegations of involvement in terrorism and repression. Both Mohsen…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

February 17, 2017

United Arab Emirates
Weekend Reading: Dubai Street Art, Valentine’s in Egypt, and a Prison in Syria

Reading selections for the weekend of February 17, 2017.

WR02172017
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates