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BEIRUT, LEBANON - JUNE 30: Pictures of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad are viewed along a wall in a poor, Hezbollah influenced neighborhood with a high concentration of Syrian refugees on June 30, 2013 in Beirut, Lebanon. Currently the Lebanese government officially hosts 546,000 Syrians with an estimated additional 500,000 who have not registered with the United Nations. Lebanon, a country of only 4 million people, is now home to the largest number of Syrian refugees who have fled the conflict. The situation is beginning to put a huge social and political strains on Lebanon as there is currently no end in sight to the war in Syria. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Commentary Arab Regional Security

Is Syria Meddling in Lebanon Again?

Report Syria

Blame Game over Syrians Stranded in the Desert

Commentary World

New Constitution Can’t Substitute for Syria Peace Process

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 08: U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a memorandum that reinstates sanctions on Iran after he announced his decision to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in the Diplomatic Room at the White House May 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. After two and a half years of negotiations, Iran agreed in 2015 to end its nuclear program in exchange for Western countries, including the United States, lifting decades of economic sanctions. Since then international inspectors have not found any violations of the terms by Iran. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Commentary World

The Middle East after the Iran Deal

ANKARA, TURKEY - JULY 17: People wave Turkish flags in front of an electronic billboard displaying the face of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a rally on the streets of Kizilay Square in reaction to the failed military coup on July 17, 2016 in Ankara, Turkey. Clean up operations are continuing in the aftermath of Friday's failed military coup attempt which claimed the lives of more than 250 people. In raids across Turkey 6,000 people have been arrested in relation to the failed coup including high-ranking soldiers and judges, Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag has said. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Commentary World

Snap Elections Put Turkey on Collision Course with Autocracy

Report Arab Politics Beyond The Uprisings

Challenging the Status Quo in Lebanon’s Upcoming Elections