List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Assad Will Talk, But He Won’t Negotiate
My discussions with Syrian officials confirmed they're unable to change. But it increasingly seems they may not need to.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Donald Trump, Capitol Hill, and the Coming Fight Over Syria
Work With Putin, or Bomb Assad: A Tale of two Statements
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: NatSec Drama in Washington; Putin Meets Obama, Reveals Subject of His Trump Chat
Return to Post-9/11 Mindset at the White House; And Lots More
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Trump’s Team Could Bring 9/11 Mindset Back to the White House
From restoring torture to expanding surveillance, the president-elect’s picks for national security advisor, CIA director, and attorney general favor a no-holds-barred approach to Islamist extremists at home and abroad.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Shiite Militias Are Crashing the Mosul Offensive
Pro-Iran militias are looking to settle an old grudge in one of the Islamic State's strongholds in northern Iraq.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: In a Flurry, Trump Picks Top Cabinet Posts; The Coming Pentagon Budget Fights
China Wary but Hopeful; And Lots More.
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trumplister Trump’s Syria Strategy Would Be a Disaster
The president-elect wants to ally with Assad and Russia to fight the Islamic State – but he’s going to end up empowering extremists and causing chaos across the Middle East.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 To do better in the Middle East, listen less to our hearts and more to our experts
Even the world’s most experienced job coach won’t prepare Trump and his coterie for the havoc the Middle East can wreak on a presidential agenda.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Enough Hysterics. Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Isn’t Reckless or Radical.
Despite the hand-wringing of the Trumpophobes, there’s a lot of rationality and realism behind the president-elect’s evolving strategy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 President Trump and the Iran Nuclear Deal
While scuttling the nuclear deal carries certain risks, the Trump administration will have many options to bring significant pressure to bear on Iran.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How President Trump Might Radically Rethink U.S. Nuclear Policy
Worried about Donald Trump having his finger on the nuclear button? Don’t be, yet. His penchant for upsetting the status quo could be just what we need.
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Hashd fighters clearing sidestreets of ISIS fighters ahead of the column, Shirqat. Iraq’s ‘Good Sunni’
Yazan al-Jabouri, with help from Iranian weapons and U.S. airstrikes, built a Sunni faction of Iraq's Shiite militias. But the fight against ISIS won't be his last.
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US President George W. Bush(L) and French President Jacques Chirac stand side-by-side during a wreath laying ceremony at the American cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer, France, 06 June, 2004 on the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion on Omaha Beach. World leaders paid poignant tribute to the Allied forces who stormed the Normandy beaches in the D-Day landings 60 years ago to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation and end World War II. AFP Photo/Paul J.Richards (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/GettyImages) Bush, Chirac, and the War in Iraq
A heart-to-heart conversation between Bush and Chirac in January 2003 could have paved a much better way forward.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Israel Prepares for the Age of Trump
Right-wingers are euphoric, hoping the president-elect will preside over the death of the two-state solution. But Netanyahu seems to know better.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Israel’s Naftali Bennett: With Trump, ‘The Era of the Palestinian State Is Over’
Naftali Bennett looks to Trump administration to reset relations in the Middle East.
