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Expert briefing
Publication date: 23 November 2022

Prospects for the Middle East in 2023.

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…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 12 April 2017

However, the successful fight against IS has not forged a new sense of unity among Iraq’s communities; instead, it has solidified some divides and created conditions for future…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 6 October 2021

Large-scale water capture in Turkish dams upstream has caused long-term shortages elsewhere in the Tigris and Euphrates river basin, notably eastern Syria and southern Iraq…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 11 September 2023

The demonstrations were triggered by Assad’s mid-August announcement of big fuel price increases, only partly mitigated by rises in salaries and pensions. However, they have been…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 28 June 2021
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Prospects for Turkey to end-2021

Prospects for Turkey to end-2021.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 14 July 2016

KRI President Massoud Barzani, who announced the initiative in February, has stressed that the result will be non-binding; however, his move has unsettled allies in Ankara and…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 6 December 2023

The Gaza conflict has led to a resurgence of attacks by Iran-backed armed groups on US forces, breaking the earlier unofficial truce. Some of those attacks have targeted bases in…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB283818

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Expert briefing
Publication date: 9 February 2022

This is part of a wider rift between Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Syrian Kurdish forces, the latter divided among themselves. The KRG closed two border…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB267220

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Expert briefing
Publication date: 13 July 2023

Exiled Kurdish parties are demanding greater autonomy for Kurds in Iran. However, Tehran accuses them of wanting separatism and blames them for fomenting the Mahsa Amini protests…

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