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Lebanon and Syria October 2025: A Snapshot

Ambassador Ryan Crocker reports on his visit to Lebanon and Syria on October 12-17 as part of a small delegation organized by the Washington office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

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May 12, 2020
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Iraq special briefing: The challenges facing Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi

May 12, 2020
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - MAY 05: Taxies and vehicles are seen after vehicles with odd and even numbered plates were allowed to hit the road by the Iraqi General Directorate of Traffic as part of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic measures in Baghdad, Iraq on May 05, 2020. Vehicles with odd-numbered plates were allowed to odd numbered days and even-numbered plates were allowed to even-numbered days. (Photo by Murtadha Al-Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Balancing relations with Washington and Tehran

May 12, 2020
President of Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani speaks during a press conference in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on January 8, 2020. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP) (Photo by SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images)

The new Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Region