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Lebanon will bargain for more Syrian refugee returns

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LEBANON/SYRIA

The country’s economic crisis and the Christian community's demographic fears have increased anti-refugee sentiment, which politicians weaponised around the May 2022 elections. In…

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…

Arab youth opinion points to instability, reform risks

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MIDDLE EAST

Arab youth opinion.

Turkish government is in quandary over Syrian refugees

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TURKEY/SYRIA

TURKEY/SYRIA: Ankara in quandary over Syrian refugees

Islamic State will draw on Syrian Sunni grievances

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SYRIA

SYRIA: Islamic State will draw on Sunni grievances

Syria refugees will be unwelcome in Beirut and at home

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LEBANON

LEBANON: Syria refugees will be unwelcome everywhere

Al-Qaida core could keep control of Syria’s Idlib

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SYRIA

The last major rebel-held area in Syria, Idlib province is under the military control of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a salafi-jihadist rebel alliance. Jaysh al-Ahrar, the largest…

Syria's Idlib could ultimately become a bloodbath

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SYRIA

SYRIA: Idlib could ultimately become a bloodbath

Turkey-US relationship will become more transactional

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TURKEY/US

The Turkish government's crackdown on internal dissent, and its opposition to Kurdish groups at home and abroad have placed its NATO ally, the United States, in an awkward…

Pope's visit to Turkey will ease relations

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TURKEY/VATICAN

Although Turks' response to the outrage in Paris on January 7 has been mixed, with some Islamist newspapers and their readers justifying it as revenge for insults to the Prophet…