Author: Katie Stallard
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The year ahead: “The Middle East is going to get solved”
Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images On 30 September 2023, Joe Biden’s US national security adviser Jake Sullivan spoke at a literary festival in New York, where he discussed the prospects for democracy around the world. He observed that the Middle East was “quieter today than it has been in two decades”. A week later, Hamas attacked…
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The Kremlin’s new calculus on Syria
Photo by Alexei Druzhinin / RIA Novosti / Kremlin via Reuters In the early hours of 8 December, as Syrian rebels swept towards Bashar al-Assad’s presidential palace in Damascus, an Ilyushin Il76 transport plane quietly departed the capital, veering northwest, before vanishing from the radar. Later that day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the…
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The world according to Trump
Illustration by André Carrilho Ukraine Will Zelensky be forced to concede defeat to Putin? In his first remarks since Donald Trump’s victory, Vladimir Putin understood exactly what the US president-elect wanted to hear. “He behaved, in my opinion, in a very correct way, courageously, like a real man,” said the Russian leader during a forum…