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Expert briefing
Publication date: 5 April 2024

While tensions across the region have risen sharply, Gulf and Iranian officials have engaged in regular and high-level dialogue that has so far prevented a wider conflagration…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 15 February 2016

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are now searching intensively for new tunnels on the Israeli side of the border, while Israel's leadership is warning Hamas of consequences if the…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 March 2015

Saudi Arabia's Sunni Arab alliance.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 31 May 2016

The ten-nation alliance led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has made significant progress since its intervention began in March 2015. A UAE-led ground force…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 14 August 2023
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Iranian-US relations will remain fraught

The warning comes despite the announcement on August 10 of an ‘understanding’, which could see US dual nationals freed in a prisoner exchange in return for unfreezing Iranian…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 26 January 2015

While the rift between Washington and its Gulf allies is not as wide as it was at the height of the 2011 Arab uprisings, Gulf states do not particularly trust Washington's…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 26 January 2017

Russia's engagement with the Taliban.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 5 October 2015

Russia's significant recent reinforcement of the Assad regime with the deployment of combat aircraft around Lattakia.

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