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The Trump administration called for early elections in Iraq amid protests in the country but the vote, if it took place, may not play out in Washington’s favour, US experts said. Influential Iraqi Shia leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called November 15 for a new election law that...
A series of Islamic State (IS) announcements of new provinces it controls in recent weeks has renewed debate over the group’s possible resurgence after its self-proclaimed caliphate fell, with some analysts warning an increasingly decentralized IS could...
Joining Crocker for the discussion will be: Emma Sky, director of Yale World Fellows and senior fellow at Yale's Jackson Institute; Sarhang Hamasaeed, senior program officer for the Middle-East and North Africa Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace ...
"The Kurdish Peshmerga need this kind of support because they do not have the air capability, they don't have the reach that they need to defeat this adversary,” said Sarhang Hamasaeed, an expert with the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington.
The Kurdish fighters – called Peshmerga – are not able to carry out some missions without U.S. support, says Sarhang Hamasaeed of the U.S. Institute of Peace. “They don't have the reach that they need to defeat this adversary,” he said. The battle ...
A rising tide of intolerance in the Middle East threatens minority faith communities with cultural extinction, said speakers at a May 10 lecture in New York. Religious minorities are the most seriously impacted among the millions who have fled their homes to escape violence and the percentage of Christians in the region has dropped to an all-time low, panelists said.
Countering the terrorist threat poses a massive challenge, including for the US to work with local governments that in some cases have abetted IS’s rise through repression, economic neglect, and corruption.
A cadre of dialogue facilitators has emerged from Iraq's burgeoning civil society and worked with the U.S. Institute of Peace to guide successful negotiations like the one in Tikrit in a half-dozen locations over the past 10 years. In 2007 ...
Winning the Peace in Iraq Is Bigger Than Winning the War Foreign Policy (blog) Just over 30 years ago, Ethiopia’s famine regularly made the news. Gruesome accounts of up to a million deaths stemming from drought and civil war captured the attention of aid agencies, sympathetic governments, and humanitarian groups around the world.
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