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No end in sight for civilian-military crisis in Sudan (Mohamed Saied, Al Monitor)

The head of the Sudanese military and chairman of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has recently called for the dissolution...

Lapid’s Washington visit brings Israel little assurance on Iran (Ben Caspit, Al Monitor)

This week’s Washington visit by Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, on Oct. 12-14, slightly eased the pessimism and deep concern that emerged from Jerusalem after the...

Iraq’s election results put militias between rock and hard place (Hassan Ali Ahmed, Al Monitor)

Preliminary election results were a shock to political parties affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and associated militias. Meanwhile, the historical ally of...

Israeli legislators keep low profile on East Jerusalem construction plans (Mazal Mualem, Al Monitor)

Jerusalem’s Planning and Construction Committee approved Oct. 13 the expropriation of land across the Green Line for the construction of new residential complexes in East Jerusalem....

Egyptian rights advocates welcome fatwa forbidding short-term marriages (Shahira Amin, Al Monitor)

Dar Al Iftaa has issued a fatwa forbidding so-called tahleel marriages, or short-term, intermediate marriages in which a man marries a divorced woman for the sole...

Russian-Iranian competition heats up in South Caucasus (Kirill Semenov, Al Monitor)

During Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian’s visit to Moscow on Oct. 5, one of the main topics of the talks with his Russian counterpart...

Erdogan threatens fresh military campaign in Syria (Fehim Tastekin, Al Monitor)

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has raised the specter of a new Turkish military campaign against Kurdish forces in northern Syria following the killing of...

Russia hopes for a U-turn in the EU’s energy policy (Mateusz Kubiak, The Jamestown Foundation)

On October 6, Vladimir Putin held a publicly broadcasted meeting with Russian oil and gas industry representatives, discussing the skyrocketing global natural gas prices...

Circassians See Russian Census as Real Chance to Unite Their Nation (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Circassians, whom the Soviet and Russian states have subdivided into twelve different nations in order to control the North Caucasus, see the upcoming...

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