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SyriaUS Foreign PolicyLifting US Sanctions on Syria: A New Chapter for Damascus and Beirut?
Jul 18, 2025Patricia KaramIn a May 13, 2025, speech in Riyadh, President Donald Trump surprised the world by pledging to lift all US sanctions on Syria. Trump’s unexpected announcement …
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyNetanyahu Is Stroking Trump’s Ego: But Will Flattery Buy a Ceasefire in Gaza?
Jul 16, 2025Khalil E. JahshanThe formal dinner at the White House was essentially a diplomatic “dud” with no serious announcements about any agreements on the agenda items revealed to the …
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Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict ResolutionPalestine and the Middle East After the Iran-Israel war
Jul 15, 2025Rami G. KhouriThe Middle East in recent months has witnessed multiple military and ideological confrontations. Historic changes in regional power balances signal new strateg…
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Washington Policy Weekly
Jul 14, 2025Ethan Mayer-RichSecretary Rubio announced sanctions on Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since…
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyA Trump-Netanyahu New Middle East?
Jul 9, 2025Nabeel A. KhouryThe Trump administration and the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been following a roadmap toward their own version of a…
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyTrump Must Push for a Gaza Ceasefire Without Indulging Netanyahu’s Iran Strategy
Jul 7, 2025Daniel BrumbergWe may never, or at least not anytime soon, know definitively how much of Iran's nuclear program Israel and the United States destroyed. But even if the attack…
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Washington Policy Weekly: House Members Seek to Give Israel the “Bunker Buster” Bomb
Jul 7, 2025Ethan Mayer-RichReps. Gottheimer and Lawler introduced H.R.4281, which authorizes the US president to support Israel’s defense by providing it with the Massive Ordnance Penetr…
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IranUS Foreign PolicyFrom Imperial Containment to Catastrophe: Why the US-Israeli Strategy Against Iran Collapsed
Jul 6, 2025Bamo Nouri Inderjeet ParmarThe military escalation of June 2025 – marked by Israel’s unprovoked and illegal attacks on Iranian nuclear sites and the first-ever direct US military aggress…
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TunisiaDemocracy and GovernanceRepression and Judicial Struggles in Kais Saied’s Tunisia
Jul 3, 2025The Unit for Political StudiesAlmost four years into President Kais Saied’s imposition of one-man-rule in Tunisia, his effort pivots around a process of “executive aggrandizement” that is d…









