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    Saudi ArabiaConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Israel-Iran Confrontation Tests Saudi Arabia’s Quest for Neutrality

    Jul 2, 2025The Unit for Political Studies

    Overnight on June 21-22, American military aircraft launched strikes on three nuclear facilities inside Iran, most notably the fortified Fordow plant. To reach…

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    IranConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The GCC States and the US-Iran Dance Near the Abyss

    Jul 2, 2025Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

    Years of shadowboxing and increasingly direct skirmishing between Israel and Iran erupted into 12 days of conflict that began in the early hours of June 13 and…

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    YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Yemen’s Houthi Movement Reconsidered

    Jun 12, 2025Nabeel A. Khoury

    In January 2019, this author posed the question, “can one make peace with the Houthis of Yemen?” In the six years since, the Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah…

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    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Israel’s False Paramedics Story Exemplifies Its Information War Against Palestinians

    May 1, 2025Yara M. Asi

    Over the past 18 months, a seemingly unending stream of horrific stories has emerged from Gaza, publicized across social media and in humanitarian reports.Thes…

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    SudanConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Is Sudan Approaching a Resolution of Its Two-Year Crisis?

    Apr 15, 2025Imad K. Harb

    Sudan’s ‘war of the generals’ between the Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) …

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    LibyaConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Libya’s Deep Divisions Show No Sign of Abating

    Mar 27, 2025Gregory Aftandilian

    Libya has fallen off the international radar screen as other crises in the region—the Israel-Hamas and Israel-Hezbollah wars, the Sudanese civil war, and the c…

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    Saudi ArabiaConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    A Decade after the Saudi Military Intervention in Yemen: An Assessment

    Mar 25, 2025Afrah Nasser

    Exactly a decade ago, Saudi Arabia announced the launch of a military intervention in Yemen, promising to lead a coalition of more than 10 nations—although som…

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    LevantConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Israel’s Center-Right and Leftist Parties Have Always Supported Displacing Gaza’s Palestinians

    Mar 12, 2025Mtanes Shihadeh

    IntroductionDuring his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on February 4, US President Donald Trump announced a plan to displace the residen…

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    TurkeyDemocracy and Governance

    A New Phase in Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict: Ocalan’s Call and Its Implications

    Mar 12, 2025Salim Çevik

    On February 27, 2025, Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a historic call, through a letter, for the organizatio…

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    The Arab WorldConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    An Arab Plan for Gaza: Obstacles and Possibilities

    Mar 7, 2025Yara M. Asi Heba Gowayed Imad K. Harb Khalil E. Jahshan Yousef Munayyer Annelle Sheline

    In response to President Donald Trump’s February 4 proposal to take over the Gaza Strip, displacing its indigenous Palestinians and transforming it into “the R…

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    JordanUS Foreign Policy

    For Jordan, Trump’s Latest Pronouncements Threaten an Existential Disaster

    Feb 7, 2025Curtis Ryan

    With US President Donald Trump pushing Jordan to permanently resettle Palestinians from Gaza, the Hashemite Kingdom once again faces a crisis that is nothing s…

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    SyriaConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Syria’s Kurds Facing Dangerous Headwinds

    Dec 18, 2024Gregory Aftandilian

    The rapid collapse of the Assad regime by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) fighters has put Syrian Kurds of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and their autonomous …