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Drone Warfare in Yemen: Fostering Emirates through Counterterrorism?
Over much of the past year in the restive country of Yemen, the Abyan and Shabwa provincial regions were declared Islamic emirates, harboring fighters of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and testing the crude governing powers of emergent groups like Ansar al-Sharia, before ...
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Netanyahu's Divided Cabinet
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu insists that Washington must set clear “red lines” if it wants to stop Iran from advancing its controversial nuclear program. In recent weeks, he has repeatedly asserted that ...
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Green-on-Blue Attacks in Afghanistan
This week marked a grim milestone in the United States’ involvement in Afghanistan, as an American soldier gunned down by allied Afghan soldiers became the 2,000th U.S. military casualty in “Operation Enduring Freedom.” ...
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U.S. Faces Challenges in Arab World, but Obama Is on Right Track
MEPC boardmember Brian Katulis, writing for U.S. News & World Report, gives a mostly-positive scorecard to the Obama administration for ...
Continue ReadingMixed Reactions to Netanyahu's UN Speech
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu showed his knack for the dramatic at the UN yesterday, bringing out a cartoony ...
Continue ReadingPalestinians Protest Amid Economic Hardship
Last week, Palestinians vented their frustration against what they perceive as mismanagement of the economy by Palestinian Authority ...
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The Saddam Tapes: The Inner Workings of a Tyrant's Regime
Saddam Hussein, the son of poor Sunni Arab peasants, formally ruled Iraq for almost 24 years. Yet, even for the U.S. and Soviet superpowers, gaining access to the intentions of his autocratic regime and its discussions behind closed doors was unusually difficult. During the ...
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