As the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov was returning to Russia in January from Syria t

Joe Macaron is a Middle East Analyst at Arab Center Washington DC.
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Washington - Between taking the mantle from US President Barack Obama and facing a progressive b
It took Turkey and Israel nearly six years to turn the page on the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid.
With the party’s national security heavyweights absent from the floor of the Republican National

The assumption since last year was that Yemen had officially become a Saudi-Iranian battlefield.

It has been nearly five months since Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) was announced ye

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Washington - The moment the nuclear agreement was reached between Iran and the P5+1 countries, it

WASHINGTON - Jordan’s counterterrorism strategy since 2014 has included joining the US-backed mil

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WASHINGTON - The unprecedented rate of arms sales to the Middle East under US President Barack Ob
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For US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, there was nothing le

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The verdict is in and the US Congress did not have a say after all.

WASHINGTON - August has witnessed a surreal game of musical chairs played by the two major Palest

If there is one country where the Iran’s nuclear deal will be the most felt, it should be Iraq.
After recapturing Aden on July 17th in their first ground victory, fighters loyal to exiled Presi