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Tunisia protests
Analysis 

Tunisia: “Unemployment has killed me”

May 15, 2017November 7, 2017 Arab Spring, Caid Essebsi, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Joseph Desire Som I, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, unemployment, violent extremism

Youth unemployment is a major driver of radicalization in Tunisia, which supplies more fighters to Syria and Iraq than any other country.

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ISIL graffiti
Op-Ed 

ISIL may be losing on the battlefield. But it’s winning elsewhere.

April 4, 2017November 7, 2017 Assad, Donald Trump, grayzone, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Mosul, Syria

The terrorist group aims to shrink the “grayzone”: the plane of coexistence between Muslims in the West and their non-Muslim countrymen.

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Op-Ed 

‘Saving Iraq’: The chains of liberation

March 20, 2017November 7, 2017 Iraq, ISIS, Mosul, Theo Wye

The dangerous assumption that Iraqis are unable to govern themselves must be challenged.

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Middle East Weekly podcast
Podcast 

Podcast: Israel/Palestine’s one-state solution

February 28, 2017 Hodeidah, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Israel, Joseph Ataman, Middle East Weekly, Mohamad Saleh, Mosul, Nadim Houssain, Palestine, Sam Bollier, Yemen

In our seventh episode, Middle East Weekly looks at the prospects of a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, the

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Aleppo Karm al Jabal neighborhood
Interviews 

Aleppo and Mosul: What’s next?

February 27, 2017 Aleppo, Gregory Aftandilian, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Mosul, Satgin Hamrah, Syria

JMEPP speaks with Gregory Aftandilian on the devastating battles for Aleppo and Mosul -and what’s next for Syria and Iraq.

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Iraq Popular Mobilization Forces
Analysis 

Inside the propaganda war for Mosul

February 5, 2017February 5, 2017 Iraq, Iraqi Security Forces, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Media, Mosul, Pete Knoetgen, Popular Mobilization Forces, Syria

A propaganda war between the Iraqi government and ISIL is raging alongside the military campaign to retake Mosul.

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Russian military in Syria
Analysis 

Russia, Syria, and the ‘new Cold War’

December 18, 2016December 28, 2016 Aleppo, Antonio Perra, Bashar al-Assad, EU, Iran, ISIS, Israel, NATO, Russia, Syria, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

Russia intervened in the Syrian war to redefine the international balance of power, not as a brotherly commitment to defend his Arab ally.

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