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June 30, 2014

Iraq
Iraq: Allah Have Mercy

It seems impossible, but it is true.  President Barack Obama was elected to the highest office in the land in 2008 in part because after five years in Iraq, he promised the American people that he wo…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

July 3, 2014

Asia
The Status of Women and Girls in Iraq and Afghanistan

This post is by Catherine Powell, fellow for CFR’s Women and Foreign Policy Program; and Amelia Wolf, research associate for CFR’s Center for Preventive Action and International Institutions and Glob…

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Blog Post by Catherine Powell Women Around the World

January 13, 2017

Turkey
Weekend Reading: Turkey’s Constitution, Wine in Lebanon, and Iraq’s Provinces

Reading selections for the weekend of January 13, 2017.

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

February 6, 2014

United States
This Week: Syria’s Fighting, Iran’s Windfall, and Iraq’s Violence

Significant Developments Syria. The United Nations and Syria agreed today to allow humanitarian aid into the besieged old city of Homs, and to allow women and children safe passage out. The agreemen…

A member of Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra mans a checkpoint on the border crossing between Syria and Jordan, which they claim to have taken control of, in Daraa December 26, 2013 (Khassawneh/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Robert Danin Middle East Matters

October 21, 2011

Defense and Security
U.S. Troops to Leave Iraq

U.S. Major General Jerry Cannon (R) dedicates a giant key to Iraq's Justice Minister Dara Noor-Eldeen as a symbolic gesture during a ceremony marking the transfer of Camp Cropper, the last U.S. deten…

U.S. Major General Jerry Cannon (R) dedicates a giant key to Iraq’s Justice Minister Dara Noor-Eldeen as a symbolic gesture during a ceremony marking the transfer of Camp Cropper, the last U.S. detention centre in Iraq, to the Iraqi government in Baghdad July 15, 2010. REUTERS/Saad Shalash
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge