Lauren Blaxter is a Middle East Research Manager at ACLED. She has been responsible for coding Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan since May 2017. Lauren holds a BA in Human Rights, a Graduate Diploma in Law, and a LLM in International Criminal Law. Her work focuses on law and forensics in armed conflict.
Last week in the Middle East, key developments include: increased Islamic State (IS) activity in…
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Last week in the Middle East, violence escalated in Yemen, Iraq, and Palestine. In Syria,…
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Last week in the Middle East, key developments occurred across the region. As predicted, demonstrations…
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Last week in the Middle East, significant developments occurred in Yemen with major clashes in…
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Last week in the Middle East, developments occurred in the implementation of the ‘Riyadh Agreement’…
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Primary developments in the Middle East last week were around US-Iran tensions in Iraq, the…
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Over the last three weeks in the Middle East, the assassination of Iranian Major General…
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Last week in the Middle East, the widespread demonstration movements across Lebanon and Iraq continued.…
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