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1 Sep 2017, 9:15 am by Garrett Hinck
Isolated fighting continues as Iraqi forces progress to their next target: Hawija, a city between Mosul and Baghdad. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 10:34 am by Garrett Hinck
Lebanon cooperated with the Syrian Army and Hezbollah to arrange the ceasefire and reduce the Islamic State presence along its border with Syria. [read post]
29 Aug 2017, 12:13 pm by Garrett Hinck
Iraqi security forces successfully used heavy weaponry to regain control over the city in only eight days with the assistance of Shiite militias. [read post]
3 Aug 2017, 9:41 am by Rachel Bercovitz
In July, Hezbollah launched an offensive to dislodge the Al Qaeda fighters from Jroud Arsal, a city along Lebanon’s northeast border that Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as the al-Nusra Front, had conquered in 2014. [read post]
1 Aug 2017, 8:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
” What’s weird, though, is that there’s no evidence that Qatari officials actually called for internationalizing the cities. [read post]
9 Jul 2017, 7:00 am by Jacob Olidort
In time, cities like Zarqa became nodes of jihadist influence and activity (indeed, the eponymously named head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Mus‘ab al-Zarqawi, hailed from there). [read post]
13 Jun 2017, 8:06 am by J. Dana Stuster
The Islamic State has had months to prepare and has likely set traps deeper in the city, as it has in other cities. [read post]
25 May 2017, 12:11 pm by Daniel Byman
To save the Syrian regime, Iran has deployed several thousand IRGC and regular army forces, and Iran also commands another 25,000 or so foreign Shi’a fighters from Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Pakistan [read post]
9 May 2017, 8:39 am by J. Dana Stuster
“We also want the restoration of peace in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and all these regions—where the oppressed are defended and the Shiites are empowered," he said at the event. [read post]
2 May 2017, 8:41 am by Matthew Landis
The Lancaster-Lebanon Chapter of SCORE provides free mentors to small business owners. [read post]
11 Apr 2017, 7:30 am by Nora Ellingsen, Lisa Daniels
And those subjects came from Burundi, Canada, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, and Nigeria—none of which are countries targeted by the executive order. [read post]
11 Apr 2017, 7:30 am by Nora Ellingsen, Lisa Daniels
Six persons’ convictions stemmed from “Operation Rhino,” an FBI investigation into a recruiting pipeline of Somali men from the Twin Cities to Somalia. [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 9:30 am by J. Dana Stuster
What happens after the Islamic State is pushed from the city remains unclear: While she said the SDF plans to hand control of Raqqa over to a local Arab council, another Kurdish official recently said he anticipates Raqqa will vote to join the Kurdish canton under a “democratic federal” system. [read post]
14 Mar 2017, 10:16 am by Jordan Brunner
Haaretz reports that according to an anonymous source quoted in a Kuwaiti paper, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps may have built a number of weapons production factories in Lebanon, which Hezbollah has been running for the last three months. [read post]
7 Mar 2017, 11:25 am by Jordan Brunner
NBC News reports that ISIS allegedly used chemical weapons during one of the battles for the city of Mosul last week, according to an Iraqi official. [read post]
5 Mar 2017, 7:00 am by Douglas A. Ollivant
The Syrian regime—dependent on Russian and Iranian support, and utilizing militia forces from Lebanon and Iraq—lacks the capacity to extend security and services into territory reclaimed from the Islamic State. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 11:45 am by EEM
"Graphic Novels and the Refugee Crisis" The Economist, 23 Feb. 2017 [text]Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff (American Federation of Teachers, 2016) [text]Lebanon’s Education Program for Syrian Children (Human Rights Brief, Feb. 2017) [text]Locked Out of Learning: A Snapshot of ESOL Provision in England (Refugee Action, Feb. 2017) [text]"Scholars in Exile," Boston Review, 7 Feb. 2017 [text]Strengthening Local… [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 7:13 am by David Schenker
Fewer than 120,000 of these Syrians reside in refugee camps; the overwhelming majority live in the kingdom’s cities and towns. [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 8:09 am by Daniel Byman
Countries like Turkey, Mali, Lebanon, and others near these hotbeds have also suffered from spillover violence. [read post]