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The region may become less of a target for groups seeking to pressure the United States. But the Kurds also have less security support now, should they need it.
A core tenet of aviation security is keeping threats out of the cockpit. What happens if the danger is one of the pilots?
Israel’s prime minister said the pilot stabbed a colleague and tried to crash the plane before passengers subdued him.
The pact with Turkey and Pakistan has evolved quickly from a vague political commitment. Riyadh hopes it will help it navigate a thorny Middle East crisis.
It signals a departure from the approach of the Starmer government.
Over a dozen countries depend on the Bab al-Mandab Strait for more than half of their maritime trade by value.
The Portuguese, Dutch and British empires all vied for control over these vital shipping lanes.
Iraq’s media landscape has undergone profound change over the past two decades.
Seizure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait complicates a widening conflict in the Persian Gulf. It also risks reigniting Yemen’s civil war.
The African shoreline is now much more valuable to outsiders who want to monitor, contain or outflank the waterway opposite them.
The resumption of fighting, paired with the ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz, complicates regional strategy and energy policy for the Gulf powerhouse.
The recent Houthi advance has revived the seemingly endless conflict between Saudi Arabia and its antagonists in Yemen.
The Italian leader has positioned Italy as a geopolitical hinge between competing power centers. The Middle East has just given that strategy a new environment.
The war against Iran has exposed Africa’s dependence on external transit hubs for international and even intra-African connectivity.
Informant culture is so embedded in everyday Iranian life that there are common Persian terms to describe it.
The international community has long seen the construction of E1 as a red line.
The Reserve Bank has increased the official cash rate to 2.75%. But much of the inflation affecting New Zealand wallets is imported and beyond the bank’s control.
Syria was among the first nations to be added to the State Department’s proscribed list. It has been removed under the rule of a former al-Qaida-affiliated militant.
A court injunction has slowed plans to build a crocodile moat at a facility holding Palestinian prisoners. But Israeli government hard-liners are pushing ahead.
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Director of the Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN), Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW
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Director of Dickinson Program in New Zealand & Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Otago, Dickinson College
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Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
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Director, La Trobe University
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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, UMass Amherst
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Honorary Research Fellow, Department of International Politics, City St George's, University of London
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Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University