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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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Jan 6, 2020
General view of city amid heavy smog in Kabul, Afghanistan on January 01, 2019.

Uncertainty abounds for Afghanistan in 2020

Jan 6, 2020
Thousands of people gather at Martyr's Square within a funeral ceremony held after an airstrike on a military school in the south of the Libyan capital of Tripoli by jets loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar, in Tripoli, Libya on January 05, 2020.

Big questions for Libya in 2020

Jan 6, 2020
An aerial view taken on December 8, 2019 shows the damage caused by reported Syrian regime and Russian air strikes the previous day in the town of Al-Bara in the south of Syria's Idlib province, that killed at least four civilans, including a child and wounding several others.

The prospects for Syria in 2020 are grim