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Sudan’s War Without Borders: How Global Powers Turned Darfur into a Proxy Battleground

Sudan’s War Without Borders: How Global Powers Turned Darfur into a Proxy Battleground

DEEP DIVE — Entire cities in the Darfur region of Sudan have been burned and razed, millions have fled their homes, and unspeakable terror and [...] More

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Arab Street Resents the Abraham Accords

OPINION — Wednesday’s trilateral meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his counterparts from Israel and the United Arab Emirates [...] More

UAE-Israel deal serves bilateral relations, not larger issues

Cipher Brief Expert Emile Nakhleh is a retired CIA Senior Intelligence Service Officer and founding director of the CIA’s Political Islam Strategic [...] More

A Raw Deal for the Palestinians

Cipher Brief Expert Marc Polymeropoulos served 26 years in the CIA before retiring from the Senior Intelligence Service in June 2019. His positions [...] More

Giving due credit for the agreement between Israel and the UAE

Dr. Kenneth Dekleva served as a Regional Medical Officer/Psychiatrist (including 5 years at the U.S. Embassy Moscow, Russian Federation) with the [...] More

One Foot In, One Foot Out: The Muddled U.S. Approach to the Middle East

Bottom Line Up FrontThe United States recently announced plans to remove two Patriot anti-missile systems from Saudi Arabia, which could be [...] More

Instability in Southern Yemen Exposes Rift Between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi

Bottom Line Up FrontIn late April, Emirati-supported separatists in southern Yemen declared self-administration, demonstrating further strains in the [...] More

Saudi Arabia Declares Yemen Cease-Fire Amidst Growing Domestic Issues

Bottom Line Up FrontSaudi Arabia announced a unilateral cease-fire in Yemen amidst growing concerns over the spreading coronavirus pandemic.Saudi [...] More

Geopolitical Fallout from the U.S.-Taliban Deal in Afghanistan

Bottom Line Up FrontThere are still questions surrounding the recent U.S.-Taliban agreement, including how Washington can pressure the Taliban to [...] More

No Progress in Yemen

Bottom Line Up FrontThe latest attack by Houthi rebels against Saudi oil and gas infrastructure involved ten drones equipped with improvised [...] More

Against All Odds: Democratic Progress in Sudan

Bottom Line Up FrontIn a region where popular democratic revolutions have repeatedly been marginalized or crushed through force, Sudan appears to be [...] More

Maritime Security in the Gulf

Bottom Line Up FrontAmidst escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf, officials from the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) recently met with their [...] More

Proxy Conflict in Yemen and the Battle for Aden

Bottom Line Up FrontThe situation in Yemen continues to devolve into anarchy, with Emirati-trained forces battling troops from the Saudi-supported [...] More