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Why Turkey’s Syria Policy May Be About to Change

As municipal elections near, the Erdogan government feels it is facing a dangerous situation that imposes a new military intervention. Several threads are unraveling in northern Syria, northern Iraq, and the broader region, which might bring the Turkish leadership to revise its Syria policy. It has become almost customary on …

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Has the Gaza War Helped Hezbollah?

While Iran has been able to mobilize its region-wide networks and reaffirm its regional importance, the story is more complicated in Lebanon. While few doubt that Iran and Hezbollah knew of Hamas’s intention to attack Israeli towns around Gaza, it remains unclear whether they knew of the timing, or even …

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