Elie Abouaoun Speaks to The Why About Developments in Northeastern Syria - Newsy
Elie Abouaoun's take on the recent events in North Eastern Syria.
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Marginalizing Iraq's IDPs will lead to radicalization, yet more violence: USIP director - Rudaw
Islamic State (ISIS) seized huge swathes of the north and west of Iraq in 2014, exacting untold violence on its population and an exodus of residents to camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) across the country until the group's territorial defeat in Iraq in 2017. ISIS now...
Iraq's Shia militias spark military buildup as U.S.-Iranian tension soars - Washington Times
Iraq’s powerful and politically potent Shia militias are becoming a flashpoint in the escalating clash between the U.S. and Iran, with the Trump White House citing the militias’ rise — and the threat they pose to American forces — as a key justification for...
Trump OKs 1,500 more U.S. troops to Middle East amid Iranian tensions - Washington Times
President Trump has ordered the deployment of another 1,500 U.S. troops to the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran, bolstering the American presence in the region but stoking fears the move will only escalate the situation and move the country closer to...
Tunisia’s Democratic Experiment Enters New Phase with Local Elections - Washington Diplomat
Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution in 2011 that ousted then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali set off the Arab Spring, a series of popular uprisings throughout the Middle East and North Africa that resulted in the overthrow of sclerotic governments. But the early optimism of the Arab Spring has since dimmed, as the revolutionary...
US administration faces immediate challenges on key Middle East issues - The Arab Weekly
Caught in an interregnum between two secretaries of state, the United States is facing immediate challenges in the Middle East that will test the Trump administration on key issues in the region.
The Long Road Back for Iraq's Minorities - War on the Rocks
Across northern Iraq, in places like the Nineveh Plain and Sinjar, members of the country’s ancient minorities are filtering back to towns and villages devastated during three years of occupation by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Christians, Yazidis and Shabaks, regarded as “infidels” by the now-vanquished extremists, suffered some of the greatest abuse....
透過外交管道 走出黑暗隧道 - China Times
中東局勢起伏，凶險難料，美國和平研究所（USIP）中東暨北非部主任伊里．阿巴農（Elie Abouaoun）指出，阿拉伯世界政教之爭數百年，應不致在一夕間突然演變為戰爭，即使在最黑暗時候，也不能放棄和平希望。但他認為，外力介入無助中東衝突。
Can the EU and partners stabilize Libya? - Deutsche Welle
Can international negotiators convince Libyan Army General Khalifa Hifter his future will be better with them than without them? What happens on Sunday will be key. Teri Schultz reports from Brussels.
Risk and Reward - Foreign Affairs
Muhammad Hamed / Reuters A Syrian refugee boy who works at bicycle repair shop in the Al-Zaatri refugee camp in Jordan, September 17, 2016. Snapshot September 21, 2016 Refugees & Migration ...