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Middle East refugee return would destabilise situation

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MIDDLE EAST

Regional host countries are increasingly calling for the voluntary or forced return of Syrian refugees at a time when Western countries are distracted by the flow of Ukrainian…

Normalising Syrian-Turkish relations faces challenges

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SYRIA/TURKEY

Turkey has dropped its insistence on regime change in Syria as it seeks to defuse a domestic crisis over Syrian refugees and to contain Kurdish aspirations. Normalisation could…

Syria will offer opponents and refugees few guarantees

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SYRIA

SYRIA: Opponents and refugees will get few guarantees

Turkey's foreign policy will increase its isolation

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TURKEY

However, it has sometimes combined a very confrontational public relationship, including public attacks on an international institution, with a much more cooperative private…

Ukraine's humanitarian crisis may escalate this winter

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UKRAINE

While the risk is high throughout most of Ukraine, in war-ravaged Donbas the risk will be even greater. A new ceasefire started on September 1, in an attempt to bolster the Minsk…

Myanmar will face more Western sanctions

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MYANMAR

Western response to Rohingya crisis.

The push for accord on a Syrian transition may falter

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SYRIA

Mistura said on October 17 that he aimed to finalise the committee before he steps down in late November. Western countries have insisted that international donor assistance for…

Rakhine violence will puncture Myanmar’s peace process

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MYANMAR

Crisis in Rakhine State.

Syria will struggle more than Iraq with reconstruction

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IRAQ/SYRIA

Iraq and Syria -- neighbours with many economic, political and social connections -- have both been subject to years of destructive armed conflict. They are now looking to…

Syria-Lebanon ties may warm fast under Russian aegis

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LEBANON/SYRIA

LEBANON/SYRIA: Ties may warm fast with Russian support