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Prospects for the Middle East in 2023.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB274197
ISSN: 2633-304X
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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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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB221071
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TURKEY: Hardliners block peace in Kurdish conflict
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES213667
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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…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB220227
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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…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB264557
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There are no declared candidates and the new man will be in effect the personal appointee of President Recep Tayyib Erdogan, whose dominance over the country seems greater than…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB211100
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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…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB281840
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Prospects for Turkey to end-2021.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB262364
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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…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB212394
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Iran's Kurdish separatist tensions.