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October 11, 2019

Election 2020
Campaign Foreign Policy Roundup: Syrian Kurds, the NBA, and LGBTQ Rights

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential challengers are saying about foreign policy on the campaign trail.

People flee Turkish air strikes in Ras al Ain along the northern Syrian border.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

September 30, 2016

Israel
Weekend Reading: Shimon Peres, Egypt’s Ultras, and the Kurds of Iran

Reading selections for the weekend of September 30, 2016.

wr09302016
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

May 16, 2015

Human Rights
Weekend Reading: AKP and the Kurds, IS in Syria, and Arab Cartoonists

Serkan Demirtas writes about the AKP and the quest for peace with the Kurds Mohammad Raba’a discusses Wadi Barada, an Islamic State foothold in Syria. Jonathan Guyer explores free speech, satire, a…

WR05162015
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

August 11, 2017

Middle East and North Africa
Weekend Reading: The Independence of Iraqi Kurds, China in the Middle East, and Tunisia’s Forgotten Palaces

Reading selections for the weekend of August 11, 2017.

IraqKurdsKirkuk
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

February 6, 2015

Iraq
Weekend Reading: Kurds in ISIS, Houthis in Sanaa, and Netanyahu in Washington

Rebecca Collard reports on Kurdish men who have joined ISIS and attacked their own people. Nabeel Khoury looks at who the Houthis are, their ambitions, and the options before them. Michael Koplow r…

WR02062015
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates