This week on Hold Your Fire!, Richard speaks with Crisis Group’s experts Riccardo Fabiani, Michael Hanna and Dareen Khalifa about the Gaza war’s economic and political fallout for Egypt.
Israel has been bombing Syria covertly for years, trying to stop anti-Israel forces in that country from getting any stronger. Some experts worry the Gaza conflict will make things worse.
The roughly 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria are described by US officials as part of an operation to keep the Islamic State from regaining a foothold in the region. But with the Islamist militant group largely degraded, American soldiers now find themselves targeted by other adversaries.
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