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A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world. Withdrawal of US forces from the region is ...
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Asharq Alawsat (English) on MSN22dOpinion

The US is Unlikely to Withdraw Its Troops from the Region

Amid the sweeping changes reshaping the Middle East, debates about the utility of keeping the roughly 40,000 US troops currently deployed across the region. With air and naval bases from Syria to the ...
Mission Support Site Green Village, H2 and Mission Support Site Euphrates, sometimes referred to as the Conoco gas field.
The case for the U.S. military withdrawing from the Middle East is not particularly new. As far back as the early 1990s, Secretary of State James Baker sought to have the U.S. disentangle itself ...
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The National Interest on MSN3dOpinion

US Gaza Policy: Between Realism and Theater

The American approach to the Gaza War—unconditional support for Israel with public pressure for humanitarian restraint—is neither strategic nor moral.
A new leader for U.S. Central Command has been approved by the Senate at a precarious time for U.S. forces and policy in the Middle East. In a voice vote over the weekend slipped in while senators ...
Government ministers from Iran-backed group and Muslim Shia allies withdraw from cabinet meeting in protest at discussions ...
Turkey, which maintained a significant military presence in Syria throughout the civil war, remains entangled in a country ...
The U.S. military assesses its operations in 2024 resulted in two civilian deaths and two civilian injuries in the Middle East, the Pentagon wrote in its annual report submitted Tuesday to Congress.