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New York Times
April 21, 2018
“The potential for a military conflict between Greece and Turkey has never seemed as close since the 1990s,” said Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The Turkish government says Greece is to blame for the spike in tensions.
The Arab Weekly
April 21, 2018
“Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey signalled a new willingness to work with Iraq's Shia-led government as a means of offsetting Iranian influence,” wrote James F. Jeffrey and Michael Knights in an article for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy think-tank. Abadi has reiterated thatÃâà...
Voice of America
April 20, 2018
Hussein Ibish, Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, and Ghaith al Omari, Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, talk with host Carol Castiel about the background and implications of the ongoing protests in Gaza and how they complicate potential talks toward aÃâà...
Axios
April 20, 2018
The U.S. is considering using emergency powers to curb Chinese tech investments, and a new report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission shows the government "is dangerously vulnerable to Chinese espionage or cyberattack because of its dependence on electronics and software made inÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 20, 2018
On April 7, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime launched yet another suspected chemical attack. Five hundred people in Douma showed symptoms consistent with exposure to chemical weapons, including burning eyes and white foam coming from their mouths and nostrils. After calling Assad anÃâà...
smallwarsjournal (blog)
March 19, 2018
“In the near term, I worry about a loss of gains in Syria and Iraq,” David Cattler, of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Tuesday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “There is still a lot of work that needs to be done there,” he said. The Islamic State terror group has lost thousands of fighters and hasÃâà...
ABS-CBN News
March 17, 2018
"It's jaw-dropping how many policy changes the Saudis have pursued at home and in the region since that last meeting," said Lori Plotkin Boghardt, a former CIA analyst now with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "Many of these changes have touched US security interests." One example is theÃâà...
Antiwar.com (blog)
March 14, 2018
If you look at some public statements by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Patrick Clawson, he said that, “gee, it's really hard to initiate a crisis, but perhaps we can get some sort of naval provocation in the Persian Gulf against an Iranian submarine to provide crisis initiation.” So this is what'sÃâà...
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
March 11, 2018
If you look at some public statements by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Patrick Clawson, he said that, “gee, it's really hard to initiate a crisis, but perhaps we can get some sort of naval provocation in the Persian Gulf against an Iranian submarine to provide crisis initiation.” So this is what's going on. ThenÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 11, 2018
You have so many layers of conflict," said Michael Knights, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. . (Los Angeles Times). The Shiite Turkmens had erected walls because the Islamic State jihadis, who adhere to a strict Sunni doctrine, believe Shiites are apostates who shouldÃâà...
OPB News
March 9, 2018
I'm functioning fully. It's business as usual,'” said David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an expert in Israeli affairs. “To be in Washington and have the president speak in superlatives about him, I think it's a way to communicate with his own public that 'I'm a world statesman.
Voice of America
March 8, 2018
Analyst Anna Borshchevskaya of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy says Lavrov's itinerary also tells a story. “The majority of these countries where Lavrov is going are former Soviet allies: Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia,” Borshchevskaya told VOA. “And there's several things that Lavrov's trying toÃâà...
Jewish Exponent
March 8, 2018
“I think a visit to Washington for him is a respite,” David Makovsky, director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told JNS. “He gets a warm welcome. It's a way for him to project to the Israeli public that he is not distracted by the investigations, andÃâà...
Cleveland Jewish News
March 8, 2018
“I think a visit to Washington for him is a respite,” David Makovsky, director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy told JNS. “He gets a warm welcome. It's a way for him to project to the Israeli public that he is not distracted by the investigations andÃâà...
Worcester Telegram
March 3, 2018
“It's important for him not to run afoul of Trump,” said Makovsky, now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “It's necessary for him to show he's not so engulfed by his own legal problems that he's not functioning as a leader.” Trump and Netanyahu are scheduled to meet Monday, in the middle of theÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 2, 2018
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy' Farzin Nadimi last year assessed that during a two-month period, the airlift brought 21,000 passengers and 5,000 tons of supplies to Damascus. Assuming these figures are accurate, over a two-year period and at a constant rate, that is more than 250,000Ãâà...
The Daily Pennsylvanian
February 27, 2018
Ambassador Dennis Ross spoke to a full room at the Perry World House to discuss the current state of the Middle East. He spoke on Monday as part of the Ilan Heimlich Memorial Speaker and Film Series at Penn Hillel. It was the third event in the inaugural series, which aims to explore the complexity ofÃâà...
Vox
December 31, 1999
Introducing Arab forces into the mix — forces that might potentially cooperate with or even fight alongside the Syrian Kurds — would cause Ankara some serious heartburn, Jeffrey, who is now at the Washington Institute for Near East policy, explains. “This would be Arab forces entering an Arab countryÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 31, 1999
The militias have “always had this anti-American tone, but when you have one threat after another, you see they're trying to send a specific message,” says Phillip Smyth, a scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who has been tracking Iranian-backed militias in Syria. This month, the BaqirÃâà...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
“In the near term, I worry about a loss of gains in Syria and Iraq,” David Cattler, of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Tuesday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “There is still a lot of work that needs to be done there,” he said. The Islamic State terror group has lost thousandsÃâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
Dennis Ross, a fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, first encountered Nader when he was working on Middle East issues in the waning days of the Reagan administration. But he came to work with him more closely under President George H.W. Bush on an effort to free Americans whoÃâà...
