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Foreign Policy
Turkey is the ISIS Revolving Door
The ability for the US and other coalition forces involved in Operation Inherent Resolve to truly degrade and destroy ISIS has been limited by the ambivalence of the Turkish government. Turkey is key to victory against ISIS primarily based on its strategic location with a southern border that touches on…
Bahrain: Iran’s Next Target?
While the Middle East continues to fall into turmoil, Iran is the one country in the region that is rising like a phoenix from the ashes of its neighbors. As one Iranian member of parliament put it last September, Iran now controls four Arab capitals – Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, and…