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Cover of Andrew Bacevich's “America’s War for the Greater Middle East,” 2016.

The disaster of US democratic imperialism

Turkey

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) meets with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi, last September. (Reuters)

What safe zone? Turkey’s margin to manoeuvre in Syria shrinks

US

US national security adviser John Bolton speaks during a news briefing at the White House. (Reuters)

Washington’s erratic policy baffles friends and foes

Geoffrey Aronson

US

US national security adviser John Bolton (L) speaks to Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin (R) following their meeting in Ankara, January 8. (AFP)

Is Trump’s America a force for good in the Middle East?

US

US national security adviser John Bolton (2nd R) wears virtual reality goggles during a visit to the Western Wall tunnel complex in Jerusalem’s Old City, January 6. (Reuters)

VR goggles can’t reveal Trump’s Syria strategy

Rashmee Roshan Lall

Middle East

A Syrian child uses a bucket to bale out water from his tent in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. (AFP)

The plight of refugees in winter

US

A Saudi soldier stands guard in Riyadh with the Saudi and US flags in the background. (AP)

Trump’s turnarounds have implications for Gulf countries

Russia

Key alliances. Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shows the way to Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, last October. (Reuters)

Russia set to build on Middle East policy successes

Middle East

Flawed societies. A girl from of an impoverished Iraqi family reportedly living on $5 a day at her home in the Iraqi city of Najaf. (AFP)

The Arab world braces for more uphill tasks in 2019