May 31, 2018
USIP’s Elie Abouaoun, Robin Wright, Mona Yacoubian in Facebook Live Discussion.
May 7, 2018
USIP’s Elie Abouaoun, Robin Wright, Mona Yacoubian in Facebook Live Discussion.
March 12, 2018
Editor’s Note: This is the third and final installment of a series, produced in collaboration with the U.S. Institute of Peace, on the challenges faced by a post-ISIL Iraq. Read the first and second installments
September 28, 2017
Iraqi political leaders in Baghdad and Erbil, the Kurdistan regional capital, have escalated their rhetoric this week, as Kurdish officials reported 92 percent approval of the Sept. 25 nonbinding vote on independence for the region. The verbal volleys and intensifying actions risk triggering another outbreak of violent conflict.
June 30, 2017
USIP’s Elie Abouaoun, Robin Wright, Mona Yacoubian in Facebook Live Discussion.
May 17, 2017
the Saudi role in the region’s military conflicts and the extremist threat on its own turf.
April 7, 2017
The United States launched its first air strikes against forces backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since the country’s civil war began six years ago,
March 26, 2017
Curbing US involvement abroad was a signal campaign promise of the new US administration. Anything that smacked of nation-building drew the sharpest criticism.
February 24, 2017
Iraq’s grinding war to dislodge the Islamic State from its last Iraqi strongholds has obscured a simmering — and in some respects equally important — political battle in Baghdad.
November 2, 2016
The Lebanese Parliament’s selection this week of General Michel Aoun as president ends 2 ½ years of a leadership vacuum that mired decision-making on fundamental economic, social and political crises facing Lebanon.
October 26, 2016
وليد جنبلاط: يبحث عن أرشبفه الخاص لأعوام 1982-1988 ليلقن تيمور بعض المفاهيم التاريخية الخاصة بنعت رئيس جمهورية لبنان بعبارات التشبيه بعيدي أمين دادا أو بوكاسا.