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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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January 20, 2012
Middle East Matters This Week: Failed Conciliation in Syria, Gaza, and Bahrain
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. With scores of Syrians killed daily, the Arab League received its observer mission’s much awaited report on Thursday. Human Rights Watch urged the Arab Le…
October 3, 2011
Intelligence
Anwar al-Awlaki: What We Learned from His Killing
Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric with ties to al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate, gives a sermon in an undisclosed location in October 2008. After covert military operations are revealed—in this case by …
March 12, 2012
United States
U.S. Targeted Killings: Official Confusion
Last Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder gave a policy speech at Northwestern University Law School, reportedly intended to “reveal publicly the legal reasoning behind [the Obama administration’s] d…
March 22, 2012
Israel
Middle East Matters This Week: Modest Security Council Steps on Syria While Copts Mourn in Egypt
Significant Middle East Developments Egypt. Pope Shenouda III, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt for over forty years, died last Saturday. Thousands of mourners attended his Cairo fune…
September 21, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: National Security Threats, Drones, and ’Red Lines’
Margaret Coker, Adam Entous, Jay Solomon, and Siobhan Gorman, “Miscues Before Libya Assault,” Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2012. Some officials say the U.S. could have sent military forces to …
