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Jordan cancels Biden summit after hundreds killed in Gaza hospital blast

US president will only visit Israel as Jordan says summit will be held at time when parties could agree to end the ‘war and massacres against Palestinians’. Jordan has cancelled a summit it was scheduled to host in Amman on Wednesday with United States President Joe Biden and the Egyptian …

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West Africa: Collapse of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy in the Sahel

Washington, DC — For two months after the coup in Niger in August, 2023, the Biden administration refused to declare that a “coup” had taken place. They did this because using the word would activate US laws requiring the cut off of all security cooperation, development assistance, and economic support. …

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Gaza Has Created a Dilemma for Hezbollah

The party has spent almost two decades building up a deterrence capacity, and now may be its prisoner. Since Hamas’ attack against Israeli towns on October 7, and the ensuing Israeli bombardment and military operations in and around Gaza, Hezbollah’s response in southern Lebanon has been mostly restrained. The party …

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