Hints and tips:
...The US maintains more than 1,000 soldiers and civilian employees in Niger and runs two drone bases to monitor affiliates of the Islamist groups Islamic State and al-Qaeda that are active in the Sahel, the...
...would help Bashar al-Assad also diversify his relations away from Iran and Russia and other countries that are involved....
...And as one of the few countries with good relations with the US and Iran, Doha plays a role relaying messages between the Biden administration and the Islamic regime. Yet Qatar still hedges....
...John Kirby, the White House’s National Security Council spokesman, said on Friday that the US does not want war with Iran, but would defend its troops and facilities....
...“It’s too important for American security interests, and the Saudis are counting on this to tie the US down.”...
...Of course, after 9/11, Saudi was vilified, tarnished and so on. But strategically, the Saudis and the Americans agreed that al-Qaeda was a major threat, that something needed to be done....
...spy on American assets....
...The Gulf state, which took up a temporary seat on the UN Security Council this year, rankled American policymakers by abstaining on a US resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
...Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, leader of the terrorist group Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, had been killed “by French forces”. The coincidence was an awkward one for Macron....
...Al-Qaeda, the Islamist group founded by Osama bin Laden, is present in at least 15 provinces, primarily in the east and south, according to a UN Security Council report released on July 21....
...The Council on Foreign Relations’ Martin Indyk has a very thoughtful piece here about how the Middle East could affect Biden’s larger China-centric foreign policy. My focus is on the politics....
...But Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said the attack showed the US would not shy away from military force “when warranted” and that the Biden administration was prepared to “...
...A local abattoir now slaughters 1,000 chickens a week in line with kosher rites, which share similarities with Islamic halal requirements....
...Garrett, who is a former senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, cites Inferno, a lesser-known novel by Dan Brown, author of the best-selling Da Vinci Code, in which the WHO...
...Foreign Relations think-tank....
...Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, on Wednesday said the administration had provided no information about the threat....
...“We really don’t want Iraq to end up as the rubbish bin of a regional Iranian-American-Saudi dispute,” says Salah al-Obaidi, a Najaf cleric and relative of Mr Sadr....
...“It’s completely unrealistic and a total pipe dream; he’s asking for unilateral surrender by the Islamic Republic of Iran,” said Barbara Slavin, Iran expert at the Atlantic Council....
...The writer is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former US assistant secretary of state...
...The remarks attributed to the emir, in which he praised Palestinian group Hamas, described Iran as an Islamic power and said relations with Israel were good, were repeatedly broadcast by Saudi Arabian and...
...Council....
...“There’s been a 1,000 per cent increase in the improvement of relations — and it’s still terrible,” says analyst Aaron Stein, at the Atlantic Council in Washington....
...The latter have vital roles when fighting a “war amongst the people”, especially in an Islamic state; they can conduct searches on women and in houses, when men cannot. The army faces two challenges....
...King Salman has also been invited to Moscow, whose relations with Riyadh have been strained given Russian support for regional rival Iran and President Bashar al-Assad of Syria....
...The writer is president of the Council on Foreign Relations Letter in response to this article: Nuclear weapons are ‘stranded assets’ / From Craig Sams...
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