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68 Foreign Ministers and Senior Leaders Meet to Discuss Fight against ISIS
Podcast
State Secretary Tillerson will host 68 foreign ministers and senior leaders of the Global Coalition, the first meeting of the global coalition working to defeat ISIS. Meanwhil...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Neal Urwitz
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Nicholas Heras on New Report, "Combating Al-Qaeda in Syria"
Podcast
By Nicholas Heras & JaRel Clay
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Al Qaeda Is Gaining Strength in Syria
The struggle for Aleppo poses an awful threat for the United States. The ongoing battle for what was once Syria’s second-largest city has united two of the most prominent oppo...
By Nicholas Heras
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Fighting Terrorism in Syria: It's More Than ISIS
The fact of the matter is that although the United States has provided military assistance to individual Syrian armed opposition groups led by “trusted commanders” since 2012,...
By Nicholas Heras
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From the Bottom, Up: A Strategy for U.S. Military Support to Syria’s Armed Opposition
As negotiations continue to uphold a teetering ceasefire in Syria, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Middle East Security Program researcher Nicholas Heras has written...
By Nicholas Heras
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Taking the Fight to "ISILSTAN": Displacing and Replacing ISIL in Eastern Syria and Western Iraq
More so than at any time in recent history, last month demonstrated the dichotomous nature of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) current situation. On the one h...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Paul Scharre
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Nicholas Heras on U.S. Troops in Syria
Nicholas Heras, research associate with the Middle East Security Program, discusses U.S. troops in Syria....
By Nicholas Heras
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The Reality in Syria Casts a Shadow Over Vienna
Hope is fleeting in Syria. The civil war has killed approximately 250,000 people, displaced more than 11 million (which is more than half of Syria’s pre-war population), cause...
By Nicholas Heras
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Fighting ISIS Means Galvanizing Its Resistance
The U.S. campaign against the self-proclaimed Islamic State (also called ISIS) is unlikely to succeed without a clear strategy for taking the fight to ISIS in eastern Syria by...
By Nicholas Heras
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Nick Heras: Assad is Stronger Than You Think
CNAS Researcher Nick Heras discusses why U.S. policymakers and the international community should not underestimate the ability of the Assad regime to prolong the Syrian civil...
By Nicholas Heras
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Can Obama Save the GCC Summit?
As President Barack Obama and the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) sit down at Camp David this week, the White House’s goal is clear: reassure America’s Middle Ea...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Shawn Brimley
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In Search of a Syria Strategy
The rise of ISIS and the spread of the Syrian civil war to Iraq have led to renewed discussions of U.S. intervention. Middle East Security Research Associate Nicholas Heras de...
By Nicholas Heras
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The Kobani Model: Strengthening Kurdish-Arab Relations in Syria
The Islamic State (IS) suffered a setbackat the northern Syrian-Turkish border city of Kobani. This much-heralded event was important for a reason that has potential future ra...
By Nicholas Heras
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Iraq's Sunni Reawakening
In early March, Baghdad started a push to retake the historic city of Tikrit, located in the center of the so-called Sunni triangle, from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham...
By Dafna Rand & Nicholas Heras
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Can Israel Survive Without the Palestinian Authority?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s obsessive focus on Iran ignores a greater and much more immediate threat to the security of Israel: the dissolution of the Palestin...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Train-and-Equip: Fight for Pluralism in Syria
This month, the United States and several of its Middle Eastern allies will begin training Syrian fighters through a revamped train-and-equip program that will form the core f...
By Nicholas Heras
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The Real U.S.-Iran Dilemma: What Happens After a Nuclear Deal?
There is a fierce debate in both the United States and Iran about the possible implications of a nuclear agreement for broader relations between the two states after thirty-fi...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Jacob Stokes & Nicholas Heras
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SOTU: Nicholas Heras on Syria
President Obama should take this opportunity to present a vision for the framework of a post-Assad Syria, and not simply limit his remarks to an update on the U.S.-led Coaliti...
By Nicholas Heras
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Does the Islamic State Pose a Threat to Morocco and Jordan?
The Middle East and North Africa‘s constitutional monarchies are surviving the upheaval of the Arab Spring. Morocco and Jordan, two key US allies in the region, are popularly ...
By Amanda Claypool & Nicholas Heras
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How Can We Beat Radical Islam?
View the video at Rudaw.net....
By Nicholas Heras
