Lebanon army seeks to finalize Hezbollah disa...

Al-Monitor’s correspondent in Beirut, Beatrice Farhat, joins host Adam Lucente to discuss the latest reports on a possible confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, including what might compel the group to intervene on behalf of Iran amid tensions with the United Sta ...  Show more

Host Adam Lucente speaks Al-Monitor’s senior market research analyst, Sam Wendel, about the potential economic fallout surrounding tensions between the US and Iran, including the likelihood of oil and gas deals between the two countries, the state of the Iranian economy, and the ...  Show more

Ankara's latest effort to end a four decades long Kurdish insurgency is opaque and is full of risks and opportunities for Turkey and Syria's Kurds says lawmaker Cengiz Candar.

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On July 11, a group of PKK fighters burned their weapons in a ceremony marking the end of their forty-year-long armed campaign against the Kurdish state. Aliza Marcus, a leading expert on the militant group, says it is too early to determine whether the PKK will abandon armed ...

Last week’s arrest of Lahur Talabani in a violent raid that left four dead set a dangerous precedent, one that could undermine PUK leader Bafel Talabani and the Kurdistan region as a whole, says independent analyst Shayan Talabany.

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Nacho Amor is the European Parliament's rapporteur on Turkey. Speaking to Al-Monitor, he blasts EU leaders for their silence over Turkey's appalling human rights record, including the jailing of more than a dozen democratically elected mayors from the main opposition CHP party ...