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Tiksa Negeri / Reuters There’s Still Hope for South Sudan
The cease-fire currently in effect may not last, but a brittle equilibrium is better than a return to warfare.
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Naif Rahma / Reuters Yemen Cannot Afford to Wait
The scars in the country run deep—and the U.S. shares responsibility.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters What We Heard in Caracas
Trump opened the door for change in Venezuela. Now he risks closing it.
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Ronen Zvulun / Reuters Trump Is Reinventing the U.S. Approach to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Instead of acknowledging the political and national aspirations of the Palestinians, negotiators are focusing on material and economic concerns.
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Abduljabbar Zeyad / Reuters Yemen's Fleeting Opportunity for Peace
A deal to stop a bloody fight over Hodeidah has no shot without the full backing of the Saudi-led coalition and the West.
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Antonio Bronic / Reuters Ukraine Is Ground Zero for the Crisis Between Russia and the West
As Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki, the confrontation reflects a larger—and for now probably unbridgeable—divide.
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Feisal Omar / Reuters What Happens in the Gulf Doesn’t Stay in the Gulf
A year after the Qatar crisis began, it’s having potentially dangerous reverberations in the Horn of Africa.
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Raheb Homavandi / Reuters Europe's Last-Ditch Effort to Save the Iran Deal
And what happens if it fails
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters Can Europe Step Up?
If Europeans see the Trumpian moment as an opportunity, the question is what they will do with it—and how it will affect the United States.
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Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters Destroying the Iran Deal While Claiming to Save It
Insisting on a “better” agreement, and threatening to walk away, is a recipe for no deal at all.
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Delil Souleiman / AFP / Getty An Accounting for the Uncounted
The human cost of the war on ISIS has become too easy for Americans to ignore. We in the Obama administration helped shape that war.
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Saudi Press Agency via Reuters The Middle East Is Nearing an Explosion
Fear is the one thing preventing it—but could also precipitate it.
