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Six killed in shooting at Hezbollah protest over Beirut explosion probe

Hezbollah blamed the Christian political party the Lebanese Forces for the attack. Several people were killed in Beirut Thursday in a shooting at a protest. A total of six people have been confirmed dead so far in addition to 32 wounded in relation to the shooting in south Beirut’s Tayouneh …

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Is Turkey losing Washington?

Erdogan’s revisionist foreign policy looks squeezed between the Eastern Mediterranean anvil and the Syrian hammer. Despite the longstanding alliance and close military partnership between Turkey and the United States, the relationship has always been troublesome. For some time now, pundits and Turkey experts have tended to speculate on “who lost …

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China-Russia Cooperation

Determining Factors, Future Trajectories, Implications for the United States China and Russia are perceived as major, long-term competitors with the United States. Since 2014, China and Russia have strengthened their relationship, increasing political, military, and economic cooperation. In this report, the authors seek to understand the history of cooperation between …

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