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Syria’s Surge in Violence Does Not Signal a New Civil War—for NowA spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to sectarian warfare in Syria, but there is still a path for the country’s new rulers to find stability.
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Will the Shake-up in Syria Undermine the Fight Against ISIS?The United States appears intent on keeping its counterterrorism alliance with the Kurds in post-Assad Syria despite the strains it is causing with ally Turkey.
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What the ‘Genocide’ Label Means for U.S. Foreign PolicyThe U.S. government has found that genocide has occurred in several parts of the world over the last two decades, most recently in Sudan and China. What are the policy implications of the label?
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Weighing Syria’s FutureIn this video interview, CFR’s Steven A. Cook sits down with CNN’s Primetime Weekend Newsroom anchor Jessica Dean and CNN military analyst Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling to discuss a post-Assad Syria.
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Moscow Attack Shows Troubling, Lethal Reach of ISISThe mass casualty theater attack in Moscow was a reminder that affiliates of the Islamic State have reorganized and infiltrated even powerful states.
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Dependency TheoryThe phenomenon of state-sponsored weddings across Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim northern region raises pertinent questions on the limits of political benevolence.
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Defeated and Detained, Islamic State Still Poses Extremism ThreatYears after defeating the Islamic State on the battlefield, world governments are now grappling with what to do with the thousands of war-related detainees in Syria.
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Nigeria Security Tracker Weekly Update: June 24-30This update represents violence in Nigeria and related to Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger from June 24 to June 30, 2023.
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Nigeria Security TrackerThe Council on Foreign Relations' Nigeria Security Tracker was an effort to catalog and map political violence based on a weekly survey of Nigerian and international press. The last update to the tracker was July 1, 2023. The data presented included violent incidents related to political, economic, and social grievances directed at the state or other affiliated groups (or, conversely, the state employing violence to respond to those incidents.)
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Nigeria Security Tracker Weekly Update: June 17-23This update represents violence in Nigeria and related to Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger from June 17 to June 23, 2023.
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Nigeria Security Tracker Weekly Update: June 10-16This update represents violence in Nigeria and related to Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger from June 10 to June 16, 2023.
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Nigeria Security Tracker Weekly Update: June 3-9This update represents violence in Nigeria and related to Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger from June 3 to June 9, 2023.
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Nigeria Security Tracker Weekly Update: May 27-June 2This update represents violence in Nigeria and related to Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger from May 27 to June 2, 2023.
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Nigeria Security Tracker Weekly Update: May 20-26This update represents violence in Nigeria and related to Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger from May 20 to May 26, 2023.