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1 week ago | 
cnas.org | Hamzeh Hadad |Charles 'Chuckie' Horn |Jim Townsend |Andrea Kendall-Taylor
US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Syria’s transitional leader, Ahmed al-Shara, in Riyadh last week was accompanied by a landmark announcement: the United States will lift sanctions on Syria, paving the way for investment and reconstruction to help the country recover from 13 years of devastating civil war. This is a welcome development that will ease Syria’s re-entry into the global economy and bring much-needed relief for the millions of civilians reliant on humanitarian aid.
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1 week ago | 
cnas.org | Rachel Ziemba |Daniel Silverberg |Hamzeh Hadad |Eitan Danon
Last week Iraq hosted the Arab League Summit for the fourth time in its history. The last time Iraq hosted the summit was in 2012, when the new Iraq was attempting to reintegrate into the regional order, only to be hindered by major security concerns. Regional actors shunned the 2012 summit, later appearing vindicated when Iraq found itself embroiled in a war with ISIS a mere two years later.
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1 month ago | 
cnas.org | Eitan Danon |Jonathan Lord |Hamzeh Hadad |Delaney Soliday
From humanitarian co-operation in Gaza to stabilising northern Syria and managing shared water resources, both nations are expanding their regional footprint. Then there's the billion-dollar bet: the Development Road Project, a transport corridor linking the Gulf to Europe through Turkiye. Iraq's Prime Minister says it's among the region's most important projects. But are some countries looking to challenge it?
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2 months ago | 
cnas.org | Rachel Ziemba |Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Hamzeh Hadad |Jonathan Lord
This month, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to mediate a new nuclear agreement between the United States and Iran after reportedly being asked to by U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call in February. In a meeting hosted by Saudi Arabia, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio allegedly followed up on the president’s request in speaking with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Trump has made clear he wants a new deal with Iran.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
brookings.edu | Marsin Alshamary |Hamzeh Hadad
The collapse of the Assad regime in neighboring Syria has significant political and security implications for Iraq. Of immediate concern is the security vacuum in Syria, which may create spillover effects across the border reminiscent of 2014, when the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) established control over territory in both countries.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Hamzeh Hadad
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Hamzeh Hadad |Jonathan Lord |Rachel Ziemba
Rachel Ziemba joins Bloomberg Television to discuss oil rising for a third day as traders watch for supply risks in the Middle East.
Watch the full episode from Bloomberg Television. Commentary Foreign Affairs April 23, 2024 The Axis of Upheaval The West has been too quick to dismiss the coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia....
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Oct 2, 2024 | cnas.org | Hamzeh Hadad |Jonathan Lord |Rachel Ziemba
Rachel Ziemba joins Bloomberg Television to discuss oil rising for a third day as traders watch for supply risks in the Middle East.
Watch the full episode from Bloomberg Television. Commentary Foreign Affairs April 23, 2024 The Axis of Upheaval The West has been too quick to dismiss the coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia....
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Hamzeh Hadad |Aveen Karim |Robert Tollast |Sinan Mahmoud
Hamzeh Hadad, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, says that brief moment of unity defied many expert predictions that Iraq would permanently fragment. “Many - and at the time I thought it was exaggerated - were questioning the existence of the modern Iraqi state, and today not only is that state still there, it is stronger than it has ever been since 1980. “In 2014, people were questioning what the Iraqi state would look like; that is not a question in 2024.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Julien Barnes-Dacey |Ellie Geranmayeh |Hamzeh Hadad |Jeremy Shapiro
19 June 2024, 15:00 – 16:00 , Berlin time (CEST, UTC+2) Online: Registration required, Register here Hamidreza Azizi, Consultant, MENA Programme, ECFR Ellie Geranmayeh, Deputy Director, MENA Programme, ECFR Hamzeh Hadad, Visiting Fellow, MENA Programme, ECFR Jeremy Shapiro, Research Director and Director, US Programme, ECFR Julien Barnes-Dacey, Director, MENA Programme, ECFR Since Hamas’s attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent war on Gaza, the Middle East has experienced a dangerous cycle...
