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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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May 9, 2014
United States
This Week: Syria’s Latest Agreement and a New U.S. Ambassador for Egypt
Significant Developments Syria. Regime forces took complete control of Homs today as part of a deal struck with armed rebels allowing for nearly 1,700 opposition fighters to evacuate the city with l…
April 4, 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa
Major Nigerian Terrorist Arrested
The Nigerian Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, and a spokesman for the Nigerian army announced on April 3 the capture and arrest of Khalid al-Barnawi, the leader of Ansaru (“Vanguard for the Pro…
February 22, 2013
Turkey
Weekend Reading: Turkey’s Chief of Staff, Fronting as a Front in Egypt, and Tunisia’s Sudden Troubles
Murat Yetkin on an important proposed change to civil-military relations in Turkey. Khalid Amayreh argues that Egypt’s National Salvation Front is not much of a Front. Kristina Kausch wonders if la…
November 23, 2017
Saudi Arabia
The Saudis and Israel--Again
There have been many signs that Saudi official attitudes toward Israel are changing, and today brought one of the strongest. As a headline in the Jerusalem Post put it, "In Possible Nod to Israel, Tw…
January 25, 2013
Israel
Voices From the Region: Jordan, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Israel
“We don’t want old faces. We tried that…We are worried…We can help Jordan not go the same way as Syria and Egypt.” –Khalid Hammad, 28, a lawyer who voted in Amman, in support of a friend, a fellow la…
