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Trump seeks greater collaboration with Saudi Arabia, but will this boost counterterrorism?
On Sunday in Saudi Arabia, President Trump announced an agreement to sell his hosts at least $110 billion worth of weapons and expressed an eagerness to ally with Sunni autocr...
By Stephen Tankel
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Welcome to the Forever War
According to legend, Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky famously said that “you may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” So it is with Afghanistan and the ...
By Phillip Carter
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Seven questions Congress should ask about Trump’s mini-surge in Afghanistan
The Trump administration seems set to roll-out a mini-surge of up to 5,000 additional troops in Afghanistan, likely increasing U.S. taxpayer costs to $30 billion per year. Bef...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Trump’s Blank Check to Sisi
Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, declared a three-month state of emergency last week after two suicide attacks on Coptic churches killed forty-four people. In response...
By Yasmin Faruki
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Trump meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
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President Trump met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the White House. Ilan Goldenberg, director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Se...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Palestinian President Abbas meets with President Trump
Podcast
Middle East Security Program Director Ilan Goldenberg discusses what Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's meeting with President Trump could mean for middle east policy. Host...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Neal Urwitz
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A U.S. Plan for the Abbas-Trump Meeting
This week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas heads to Washington as President Donald Trump makes his first major foray into Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Thus f...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Hady Amr
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How will Afghan, US leaders respond to deadly Taliban attack?
The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on the 209thAfghan Army Corps base near the historic city of Mazar-i-Sharif that has killed at least 140 Afghan s...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Don't Celebrate Dropping The 'MOAB' In Afghanistan - It's Just More Of The Same
Last week's utilization of a 21,000 pound bomb to destroy an ISIS cave complex in Afghanistan was oddly met with jubilation. But as the dust settles, both literally and metaph...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Afghanistan is at risk of becoming the new Vietnam
Thursday’s detonation in Afghanistan of the massive GBU 43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, also known as the Mother of All Bombs (MOAB) could be for this war what the Tet Offens...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Honeymoon between Trump administration and Putin fading rapidly
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to the Centre for a New American Security's Richard Fontaine about two big issues dominating US foreign policy — Syria and North Korea. Watch t...
By Richard Fontaine
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The U.S. Military Role in Libya: Where are we now?
Podcast
Nicholas Heras, Bacevich Fellow at CNAS, discusses the U.S. military role in Libya and local partner forces in the fight against ISIS. Hosted by Neal Urwitz....
By Nicholas Heras & Neal Urwitz
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We Are Now Part of This War
In March 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, then–Maj. Gen. David Petraeus turned to embedded reporter Linda Robinson and famously asked: “Tell me how this ends.” That question...
By Phillip Carter
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US airstrike in Syria not meant to do much damage
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The U.S. has yet to reach a consensus on its approach to the Syrian crisis, says Richard Fontaine from the Center for a New American Security. Watch the interview at CNBC....
By Richard Fontaine
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Russia’s Escalation in Syria: Making It Tougher to Fight ISIS?
On Thursday, the Trump administration decided to fire 59 cruise missiles from U.S. naval vessels in the Mediterranean at the Al-Shayrat airbase, an important Syrian military a...
By Nicholas Heras
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Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras discuss Syria in The Washington Post
Commentary
In The Washington Post, CNAS Middle East Security Program experts Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras discuss President Donald Trump's decision to launch missile strikes agains...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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The Strategic Implications of the U.S. Strike on Syria
Podcast
CNAS Middle East experts Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras discuss U.S. missiles strikes on Syria and its implications....
By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Neal Urwitz
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The Failure of Trumpcare Is Good News for the Iran Deal
The collapse of the Republican healthcare bill is good news not only for President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement, but also for one of his central foreign polic...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Middle Kingdom Meets Middle East
In a new Islamic State video that has undoubtedly caught Beijing’s eye, Uighur militants threaten to “shed blood like rivers” in China, pledge to avenge the oppressed, and bur...
By Richard Fontaine & Michael Singh
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Can Trump End the War in Syria?
With the near-doubling of U.S. forces in northern Syria, and perhaps more on the way, President Donald Trump is moving aggressively on his pledge to “demolish and destroy” wha...
By Colin H. Kahl, Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
