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In Syria, Aid Cuts Threaten to Feed the Return of ISIS
Throughout decades of often disastrous American military interventions abroad, Washington has also claimed to support ...
Syria’s government and Kurds reach agreement on returning families from notorious camp
Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria have announced an agreement with the transitional government in Damascus to evacuate ...
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The End of Neoconservatism
In what can be called a victory speech over failed neoconservative foreign policy, President Donald Trump proclaimed the end of 30-some years of existing foreign policy in the Mideast. The ideology ...
Trump’s Warming Toward Syria Complicates Israel’s Military Strategy
Since President Trump’s embrace of the new Syrian leader, Israeli airstrikes on the country have subsided. Israel has ...
Trump administration takes first steps in easing a half-century of US sanctions on Syria.
The Trump administration is granting Syria a waiver from one crippling set of sanctions as well as easing restrictions on ...
Former Middle East Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
A veteran of reporting in the Middle East, Margaret Coker traveled across the Arab world and wrote about politics, civil unrest and economics. She specialized in financial corruption and internet ...
U.S. and regional countries team up to resolve the issue of Islamic State prisoners in Syria
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country, the United States, Syria and Iraq have formed a working group to try ...
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Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K)
[8] IS-K has received support from the Islamic State’s core leadership in Iraq and Syria since its founding in 2015 ... [11] Additionally, a recent United Nations publication commented that “[ISIS] ...