Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The United Arab Emirates are upset that the United States seems to be infringing on their sovereignty and that there are too many restrictions on this deal.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to expel ten Western ambassadors who called for the release of jailed businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala. Marc Pierini looks at what is behind this move and the implications such a foreign policy decision could have.
Iraq has been holding a regional summit, aimed at promoting peace and reconciliation in the Middle East.
It is pretty bad and I think it is going to get worse. I was just listening again to President Biden so the thing is that these talks with the Taliban that we initiated under President Trump, those were not peace negotiations. Basically, it was a surrender process
I think it’s a matter of time and how fast the ticking clock begin to tick. There is no doubt the Taliban emerges as the most significant military and political force in the country
Lebanon is caught between a rock and a hard place, and the implications of it as a failed state.
A discussion on the explosion in Beirut, one year later.
I did understand over the course of the (Trump) presidency that we were dealing with a different actor on foreign policy. Somebody who had a different way of thinking about America's role in the world and speaking about it than did the establishment and did his predecessors.
Experts discuss tipping points in Iran, the future of the regime and what a post-Islamic Republic Iran might look like, and patterns in the history of authoritarian regimes.
The UN Security Council on Friday extended a deal that would allow cross-border humanitarian aid to continue flowing into Syria. This comes after a last minute compromise between the U.S. and Russia promising to help millions of Syrians for the next 12 months.