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Expert briefing
Publication date: 6 September 2022

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…

Executive summary
Publication date: 30 October 2020

MIDDLE EAST: US allies may announce labour reforms

Expert briefing
Publication date: 23 November 2021
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Gulf boycott raises Lebanon economic risks

They have failed to convene cabinet for more than a month amid a row over how to resolve a break in diplomatic relations with former Gulf allies. Measures taken by Saudi Arabia…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 13 July 2018

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…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 23 November 2022

Prospects for the Middle East in 2023.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 12 October 2020

This came during a visit by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif, who was seeking to negotiate a 25-year strategic partnership and move forward with collaboration on a…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 13 July 2020

The incident, which is being widely attributed to Israel, is part of a series of unexplained fires and explosions at sensitive military and industrial sites. It follows heightened…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 24 May 2017

The pro-Iranian Badr Organisation is one of the larger PMUs -- groups of mostly Shia armed volunteers established in 2014 to help the army fight IS. They launched a new offensive…

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