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The United States Should Leave Yemen, Not Broker Peace

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Like it or Not, Regime Change is Coming to Iran

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This Economic Trick Will Stabilize Syria

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Is Netanyahu Pushing Israel Towards a War?

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The Khashoggi Affair is Complicating Trump's Syria Policy

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The Coming Fight for Middle Eastern Water

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U.S.-Turkey Relations in a Time of Turmoil

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Forty-Five Years After the 1973 War, Israel Faces Another Year of Decision

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The International System Was Never Built to Stop Assad

FILE PHOTO: A display featuring missiles and a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran September 27, 2017. Picture taken September 27, 2017. Nazanin Tabatabaee Yazdi/TIMA via REUTERS ATTENTION

Iran's Missiles Are a Clear Threat. Here's How America's Allies Are Responding.

What Is the 1955 Treaty of Amity with Iran?

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan sits during an interview with Reuters in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 25, 2018. Picture taken September 25, 2018. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Can Erdogan's New Powers Help Fix Turkey's Economy?

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin after a news conference in Ankara, Turkey, December 11, 2017. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Turkey Must Choose the Tough Option and Leave Syria

A man sits near a poster of Syrian President Bashar al Assad during the re-opening of the road between Homs and Hama in Talbisi, Syria June 6, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Syria Is a Lost Cause and America Must Move On