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Q&A / Iran

Engaging Iran Remains Vital after Presidential Election

Iran’s new president, Ebrahim Raisi, represents the hardliners within the Islamic Republic. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts Ali Vaez and Naysan Rafati explain why the U.S. should nevertheless persist in working to restore the 2015 nuclear deal to its full promise.

A New UN Envoy is an Opportunity for a New Approach in Yemen
Commentary / Middle East & North Africa

A New UN Envoy is an Opportunity for a New Approach in Yemen

The UN is recruiting a new envoy to broker peace in Yemen. More important than who gets the job is how UN member states and the mediator perceive its purpose, interpretations of which have limited the UN to the flawed two-party framework adopted since 2015.  

Turning Engagement Into a Regional Dialogue Mechanism in the Middle East
Op-Ed / Middle East & North Africa

Turning Engagement Into a Regional Dialogue Mechanism in the Middle East

Ethiopia Votes, But Balloting Will Not Ease the Country’s Deep Crisis
Q&A / Africa

Ethiopia Votes, But Balloting Will Not Ease the Country’s Deep Crisis

Gbagbo’s Return to Côte d’Ivoire: A New Opportunity for Reconciliation
Q&A / Africa

Retour de Laurent Gbagbo en Côte d’Ivoire : une nouvelle occasion de réconciliation

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Videos & Photography

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Five Conflicts the EU Can Help Address

The Spring Update of the Watch List 2021 includes entries on Myanmar, Yemen, Bolivia, Nigeria and Ukraine.

 
Video / Africa

What Data Says About Herder-Farmer Violence in Nigeria

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Colombian Guerrillas on the Venezuelan Border

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Video / Africa

What is Happening in South Sudan?

 
Video / Asia

Myanmar Edges Toward State Collapse Following Coup

 
Video / Middle East & North Africa

Peacemaking in Yemen Needs Women's Voices

 
Video / Africa

Resolving the Insurgency in South Sudan's Equatoria Region

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Fighters for Peace: The Struggle of Latin America’s Women Activists

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Deeply Rooted: Coca Eradication and Violence in Colombia

 
Video / Africa

A New Strategy to End the Sahel's Wars

 
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Video – 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2021

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President's Take

Slivers of Hope in the Middle East

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Richard Atwood
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In his monthly take ahead of CrisisWatch, Interim President Richard Atwood looks at recent diplomacy in the Middle East and prospects for assuaging two of the rivalries that have fuelled Arab wars over the past decade.

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Gender and Conflict

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Gender and Conflict
Podcast / Gender and Conflict

Gender and Conflict

For an International Women’s Day special episode of Hold Your Fire!, Naz Modirzadeh and Richard Atwood talk to Azadeh Moaveni, Crisis Group’s gender and conflict expert, about the Women, Peace and Security agenda and Crisis Group’s work on gender and conflict.

Briefing / Gender and Conflict

A Course Correction for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Briefing / Middle East & North Africa

Exiles in Their Own Country: Dealing with Displacement in Post-ISIS Iraq

Also available in العربية
Podcast / Global

War & Peace: Why Gender Matters in the Fight Against Terrorism

Visual Explainers

Mapping Middle East tensions

The Iran-U.S. Trigger List

An early-warning platform to monitor, analyse, and provide regular updates on the key and increasingly tense flashpoints between Iran and the U.S. or their respective allies that could lead to a direct or indirect confrontation, or generally to a dangerous regional escalation. Read more...

Mapping Middle East tensions

The Iran-U.S. Trigger List

Turkey’s PKK Conflict: A Visual Explainer

The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Visual Explainer

In The News

17 Jun 2021
This is exactly what the Kremlin wants. To talk to the US as equals and in such a way that the other side does not demand a change of position as a condition of dialogue. CNN

Oleg Ignatov

Senior Analyst, Russia
14 Jun 2021
Netanyahu was very eloquent. He didn’t actively seek war, he was cautious. As for Bennett, we don’t yet know. Could he drag Israel into new wars? Foreign Policy

Joost Hiltermann

Program Director, Middle East and North Africa
13 Jun 2021
How do you not lose Turkey while you try to curb Erdogan? Erdogan is trying to find a way forward when they are trying to make sure he does not score political points. The New York Times

Nigar Göksel

Project Director, Turkey
13 Jun 2021
For those who care about the Palestinian side, they see every Israeli government as similar, they feel like the occupation is going to continue regardless and it doesn’t matter who is the face of it. The New York Times

Elham Fakhro

Senior Analyst, Gulf States
9 Jun 2021
The U.S. is framing [the issue of aid to Syria] as a litmus test of the relationship with Moscow, not only over Syria but more generally. Foreign Policy

Richard Gowan

UN Director
2 Jun 2021
Successive [Iraqi] governments since the military victory over ISIS have failed to integrate the PMF. It has become a force in itself, pursuing its own interests. Al Jazeera

Lahib Higel

Senior Analyst, Iraq

Regional Updates

Global

Seven Points for the G7
Commentary

Seven Points for the G7

Podcast

The Under-loved Logic of Nuclear-free Zones

EU Watch List

Watch List 2021 – Spring Update

Africa

Insurrection in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado - Preventing a New Jihadist Front
Event Recording

Insurrection in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado - Preventing a New Jihadist Front

Q&A

Ethiopia Votes, But Balloting Will Not Ease the Country’s Deep Crisis

Q&A

Retour de Laurent Gbagbo en Côte d’Ivoire : une nouvelle occasion de réconciliation

Asia

Help Contain the Damage of Myanmar’s Military Coup
Commentary

Help Contain the Damage of Myanmar’s Military Coup

Report

Myanmar’s Military Struggles to Control the Virtual Battlefield

Op-Ed

The Normalization Process in the Bangsamoro Faces Rising Uncertainty

Europe & Central Asia

Post-war Prospects for Nagorno-Karabakh
Report

Post-war Prospects for Nagorno-Karabakh

Video

Video - Türkiye-Yunanistan: Denizlerde gerilim siyasetinden diyaloğa

Interview

Uluslararası Kriz Grubu Türkiye-Yunanistan raporu - Konuk: Nigar Göksel

Latin America & Caribbean

COVID-19, Inequality and Protests in Colombia
Podcast

COVID-19, Inequality and Protests in Colombia

Op-Ed

As Ortega Tightens His Grip, Nicaragua Braces for Volatile Elections

Report

Electoral Violence and Illicit Influence in Mexico’s Hot Land

Middle East & North Africa

A New UN Envoy is an Opportunity for a New Approach in Yemen
Commentary

A New UN Envoy is an Opportunity for a New Approach in Yemen

Podcast

Iran: the Vote and the Bomb

Op-Ed

Turning Engagement Into a Regional Dialogue Mechanism in the Middle East

United States

Venezuela: An Opportunity That Should Be Seized
Statement

Venezuela: An Opportunity That Should Be Seized

Q&A

How the U.S. Withdrawal Decision Will Affect the Afghan Conflict

Op-Ed

The Arduous Path to Restoring the Iran Nuclear Deal

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