The SDF and the armed factions that assumed control in Damascus also have more than a decade of tensions and hostilities ...

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Afghanistan Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said that the Taliban were committed to the 1973 water treaty between Afghanistan and Iran. But he added that “the drought in Afghanistan and the ...

“a significant infrastructure and connectivity project to enhance broader transcontinental integration between Asia, the Arabian Gulf, and Europe, or what I call the Eurasian rimland. It seeks to ...

Whereas an International Stabilization Force (ISF) would train and support newly formed Palestinian police forces, secure ...

Gordon Gray is the Kuwait Professor of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs at ...