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December 16, 2025

Unfinished business will drive the Mideast agenda in 2026

MEI experts weigh in on where the Middle East region is headed in the coming year.

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Mar 16, 2020
Syrians in protest climb atop a Turkish military M60T tank and infantry-fighting vehicle (IFV) as they attempt to block traffic on the M4 highway, which links the northern Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Latakia, before incoming joint Turkish and Russian military patrols (as per an earlier agreed upon ceasefire deal) in the village of al-Nayrab, about 14 kilometres southeast of the city of Idlib and seven kilometres west of Saraqib in northwestern Syria on March 15, 2020

A serious blow to the prospect of joint patrols in Idlib

Mar 16, 2020
Ayman Odeh (C), leader of the Hadash party that is part of the Joint List alliance, gives an address with other alliance leaders at their electoral headquarters in Israel's northern city of Shefa-Amr on March 2, 2020, after polls officially closed.

Israeli elections and the Joint List

Mar 16, 2020
Fighters of the UN-backed Government of National Accord take cover during clashes with Libyan National Army forces at Al-Nahr frontline in Tripoli, Libya, on March 8, 2020.

Keeping the UN political track in Libya alive