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Week in Review

Erdogan

Analysis

Russia-Ukraine war recasts Turkish policies and priorities

Week in Review

An Ukrainian flag waves in front of smoke rising from a bombed warehouse in the town of Stoyanka, west of Kyiv, on March 4, 2022.

Analysis

Bennett, Erdogan seek to fill diplomatic vacuum over Ukraine

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Iran prisoners

Analysis

Will there be an Iran nuclear deal? What you need to know

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Kharkiv

Analysis

Russian invasion of Ukraine scrambles Middle East diplomacy

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US President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Oval Office at the White House on Aug. 27, 2021, in Washington, DC.

Analysis

Does Raisi need a nuclear deal more than Biden?

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Lisa Ferdinando/US Department of Defense via Getty Images

Analysis

Islamic State still 'global operation,' says Pentagon report

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Qurayshi attack

The death of ISIS’s ‘Hajji Abdullah’: Views from Idlib, Iraq and more

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Turkey Ukraine

Crisis in Ukraine: the Middle East connections

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Mourners carry the casket of one of eleven Iraqi soldiers, killed in an overnight attack by the Islamic State (IS) group against a base in eastern Iraq, through a street in the central holy shrine city of Najaf, on Jan. 21, 2022.

Islamic State escalates violence across Baghdad Belt

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Blinken

Hints of progress on Iran nuclear talks, but time running out

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Iran protest

Iran’s days of rage on Soleimani anniversary have their limits

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An Orthodox Jewish man casts his vote as Israelis head to the polls on March 23, 2021 in Bnei Brak, Israel.

Middle East elections had consequences in 2021

Week in Review