Series

The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit NGO covering over 50 crisis-affected countries and territories across four continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve conflict. The series Crisis Group Middle East Reports examines current conflicts in the region and their implications for international relations.

Publishers:	International Crisis Group (ICG)
Publications:	Intra-Gulf Competition in Africa’s Horn: Lessening the Impact Averting the Middle East’s 1914 Moment Reversing Israel’s Deepening Annexation of Occupied East Jerusalem Of Tanks and Banks: Stopping a Dangerous Escalation in Libya Addressing the Rise of Libya’s Madkhali-Salafis Prospects for a Deal to Stabilise Syria’s North East Saudi Arabia: Back to Baghdad Iran´s Priorities in a Turbulent Middle East Winning the Post-ISIS Battle for Iraq in Sinjar Israel, Hizbollah and Iran: Preventing Another War in Syria The Iran Nuclear Deal at Two: A Status Report The PKKs Fateful Choice in Northern Syria Instruments of Pain (I): Conflict and Famine in Yemen Hizbollah´s Syria Conundrum Yemen´s al-Qaeda: Expanding the Base Implementing the Iran Nuclear Deal: A Status Report Israel/Palestine: Parameters for a Two-State Settlement Fight or Flight: The Desperate Plight of Iraq´s Generation 2000 Exploiting Disorder: al-Qaeda and the Islamic State Yemen: Is Peace Possible? Iran after the Nuclear Deal New Approach in Southern Syria No Exit? Gaza & Israel between Wars Réforme et stratégie sécuritaire en Tunisie Lebanon's Self-Defeating Survival Strategies The Status of the Status Quo at Jerusalem’s Holy Esplanade Arming Iraq’s Kurds: Fighting IS, Inviting Conflict Bringing Back the Palestinian Refugee Question Rigged Cars and Barrel Bombs: Aleppo and the State of the Syrian War The Huthis: From Saada to Sanaa Lebanon’s Hizbollah Turns Eastward to Syria Iran and the P5+1: Solving the Nuclear Rubik’s Cube Iraq: Falluja’s Faustian Bargain The Next Round in Gaza Sudan: Preserving Peace in the East Leap of Faith: Israel's National Religious and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Anything But Politics: The State of Syria’s Political Opposition Yemen’s Southern Question: Avoiding a Breakdown Make or Break: Iraq’s Sunnis and the State Syria's Metastasising Conflicts Buying Time? Money, Guns and Politics in the West Bank Too Close For Comfort: Syrians in Lebanon Trial by Error: Justice in Post- Qadhafi Libya Yemen’s Military-Security Reform: Seeds of New Conflict? Spider Web: The Making and Unmaking of Iran Sanctions Tunisie: violences et défi salafiste Syria's Kurds: A Struggle within a Struggle Extreme Makeover? (II): The Withering of Arab Jerusalem Extreme Makeover? (I): Israel's Politics of Land and Faith in East Jerusalem Israel and Hamas: Fire and Ceasefire in a New Middle East A Precarious Balancing Act: Lebanon and the Syrian Conflict Tentative Jihad: Syria's Fundamentalist Opposition Light at the End of their Tunnels? Hamas & the Arab Uprisings Syria's Mutating Conflict Iraq's Secular Opposition: The Rise and Decline of Al-Iraqiya Deja Vu All Over Again? Iraq's Escalating Political Crisis Yemen: Enduring Conflicts, Threatened Transition Tunisie: relever les défis économiques et sociaux The Emperor Has No Clothes Iraq and the Kurds Back to Basics: Israel's Arab Minority and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Lebanon's Palestinian Dilemma In Heavy Waters: Iran's Nuclear Program, the Risk of War and Lessons from Turkey Breaking Point? Yemen's Southern Question Failing Oversight: Iraq's Unchecked Government Curb Your Enthusiasm: Israel and Palestine After the UN Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (VIII) Palestinian Reconciliation: Plus ça change Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (VII) Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (VI) Popular Protests in North Africa and The Middle East (V): Making Sense of Libya Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (IV): Tunisia's Way Soulèvements populaires en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient (IV) : la voie tunisienne Popular Protests in North Africa and The Middle East (III): The Bahrain Revolt Radical Islam in Gaza Iraq and the Kurds: Confronting Withdrawal Fears Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (II) Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (I) Trial by Fire Loose Ends: Iraq's Security Forces Between US Drawdown and Withdrawal Squaring the Circle: Palestinian Security Reform Under Occupation Drums of War: Israel and the 'Axis of Resistance' Lebanon's Politics: The Sunni Community and Hariri's Future Current Tipping Point? Palestinians and the Search for a New Strategy Iraq's Uncertain Future Reshuffling the Cards? (2) Reshuffling the Cards? (1) Palestine: Salvaging Fatah Iraq's New Battlefront: The Struggle Over Ninewa Israel's Religious Right and the Question of Settlements Iraq and the Kurds Les élections libanaises Yemen: Defusing the Saada Time Bomb Gaza's Unfinished Business Nurturing Instability: Lebanon's Palestinian Refugee Camps Engaging Syria? US Constraints and Opportunities Iraq's Provincial Elections - The Stakes Turkey and Iraqi Kurds - Conflict or Cooperation? Oil for Soil - Toward a Grand Bargain on Iraq and the Kurds Ruling Palestine II - The West Bank Model La Nouvelle Équation Libanaise - Le role Central des Chrétiens Failed Responsibilities - Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon Egypt's Muslim Brothers - Confrontation or Integration? Iraq after the Surge II - The Need for a New Political Strategy Iraq after the Surge I - The New Sunni Landscape Ruling Palestine I - Gaza under Hamas Iraq's Civil War, the Sadrists and the Surge Inside Gaza - The Challenge of Clans and Families Shiite Politics in Iraq - The role of the Supreme Council Hizbollah and the Lebanese Crisis After Gaza Where is Iraq Heading? Lessons from Basra Western Sahara - Out of the Impasse Western Sahara - The Cost of the Conflict Iraq and the Kurds - Resolving the Kirkuk Crisis Restarting Israeli-Syrian Negotiations After Mecca - Engaging Hamas Egypt's Sinai Question After Baker-Hamilton - What to do in Iraq Israel/Hizbollah/Lebanon - Avoiding Renewed Conflict The Arab-Israeli Conflict: To Reach a Lasting Peace Israel/Palestine/Lebanon - Climbing Out of the Abyss Iraq and the Kurds - The Brewing Battle Over Kirkuk Iraq's Muqtada Al-Sadr - Spoiler or Stabiliser Palestinians, Israel, and the Quartet - Pulling Back from the Brink La Transition Politique en Mauritanie - Bilan et Perspectives The Next Iraqi War? Sectarianism and Civil Conflict Iran - Is There a way out of the Nuclear Impasse? In their own Words - Reading the Iraqi Insurgency Enter Hamas - The Challenges of Political Integration Managing the Gathering Storm The Shiite Question in Saudi Arabia The Jerusalem Powder Keg Disengagement and its Discontents - What will the Israeli Settlers do? Iraq - Don't Rush the Constitution Contestation Islamiste en Mauritanie - Menace ou bouc Émissaire? Bahrain's Sectarian Challenge Syria After Lebanon, Lebanon After Syria Iran in Iraq - How Much Influence? Understanding Islamism Disengagement and After - Where Next for Sharon and the Likud? Reforming Egypt - In Search of a Strategy Iraq - Allaying Turkey's Fears Over Kurdish Ambitions What Can the US Do in Iraq? Iraq - Can Local Governance Save Central Government? Who Governs the West Bank? Saudi Arabia Backgrounder - Who are the Islamists? Reconstructing Iraq Islamism, Violence and Reform in Algeria - Turning the Page Can Saudi Arabia Reform Itself? Iraq's Transition - On a Knife Edge Iraq's Kurds - Toward an Historic Compromise? Identity Crisis - Israel and its Arab Citizens Syria Under Bashar (II): Domestic Policy Challenges Syria Under Bashar (I): Foreign Policy Challenges Palestinian Refugees and the Politics of Peacemaking Dealing With Hamas Iraq - Building a new Security Structure Iraq's Constitutional Challenge Dealing with Iran's Nuclear Program Governing Iraq The Israeli-Palestinian Roadmap - What a Settlement Freeze Means and Why it Matters Algeria - Unrest and Impasse in Kabylia A Middle East Roadmap to Where? Islamic Social Welfare Activism in the Occupied Palestinian Territories War in Iraq - Managing Humanitarian Belief War in Iraq - Political Challenges After the Conflict War in Iraq - What's Next for the Kurds? Iraq Policy Briefing - Is There an Alternative to War? Yemen - Coping with Terrorism and Violence in a Fragile State Old Games, New Rules - Conflict on the Israel-Lebanon Border Iraq Backgrounder - What Lies Beneath Iran - The Struggle for the Revolution's Soul Middle East Endgame III - Israel, Syria and Lebanon Middle East Endgame II - How a Comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian Peace Settlement Would Look Middle East Endgame I - Getting to a Comprehensive Arab-Israeli Peace Settlement A Time to Lead - The International Community and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Publishers:

International Crisis Group (ICG)

Publications:

Intra-Gulf Competition in Africa’s Horn: Lessening the Impact
Averting the Middle East’s 1914 Moment
Reversing Israel’s Deepening Annexation of Occupied East Jerusalem
Of Tanks and Banks: Stopping a Dangerous Escalation in Libya
Addressing the Rise of Libya’s Madkhali-Salafis
Prospects for a Deal to Stabilise Syria’s North East
Saudi Arabia: Back to Baghdad
Iran´s Priorities in a Turbulent Middle East
Winning the Post-ISIS Battle for Iraq in Sinjar
Israel, Hizbollah and Iran: Preventing Another War in Syria
The Iran Nuclear Deal at Two: A Status Report
The PKKs Fateful Choice in Northern Syria
Instruments of Pain (I): Conflict and Famine in Yemen
Hizbollah´s Syria Conundrum
Yemen´s al-Qaeda: Expanding the Base
Implementing the Iran Nuclear Deal: A Status Report
Israel/Palestine: Parameters for a Two-State Settlement
Fight or Flight: The Desperate Plight of Iraq´s Generation 2000
Exploiting Disorder: al-Qaeda and the Islamic State
Yemen: Is Peace Possible?
Iran after the Nuclear Deal
New Approach in Southern Syria
No Exit? Gaza & Israel between Wars
Réforme et stratégie sécuritaire en Tunisie
Lebanon's Self-Defeating Survival Strategies
The Status of the Status Quo at Jerusalem’s Holy Esplanade
Arming Iraq’s Kurds: Fighting IS, Inviting Conflict
Bringing Back the Palestinian Refugee Question
Rigged Cars and Barrel Bombs: Aleppo and the State of the Syrian War
The Huthis: From Saada to Sanaa
Lebanon’s Hizbollah Turns Eastward to Syria
Iran and the P5+1: Solving the Nuclear Rubik’s Cube
Iraq: Falluja’s Faustian Bargain
The Next Round in Gaza
Sudan: Preserving Peace in the East
Leap of Faith: Israel's National Religious and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Anything But Politics: The State of Syria’s Political Opposition
Yemen’s Southern Question: Avoiding a Breakdown
Make or Break: Iraq’s Sunnis and the State
Syria's Metastasising Conflicts
Buying Time? Money, Guns and Politics in the West Bank
Too Close For Comfort: Syrians in Lebanon
Trial by Error: Justice in Post- Qadhafi Libya
Yemen’s Military-Security Reform: Seeds of New Conflict?
Spider Web: The Making and Unmaking of Iran Sanctions
Tunisie: violences et défi salafiste
Syria's Kurds: A Struggle within a Struggle
Extreme Makeover? (II): The Withering of Arab Jerusalem
Extreme Makeover? (I): Israel's Politics of Land and Faith in East Jerusalem
Israel and Hamas: Fire and Ceasefire in a New Middle East
A Precarious Balancing Act: Lebanon and the Syrian Conflict
Tentative Jihad: Syria's Fundamentalist Opposition
Light at the End of their Tunnels? Hamas & the Arab Uprisings
Syria's Mutating Conflict
Iraq's Secular Opposition: The Rise and Decline of Al-Iraqiya
Deja Vu All Over Again? Iraq's Escalating Political Crisis
Yemen: Enduring Conflicts, Threatened Transition
Tunisie: relever les défis économiques et sociaux
The Emperor Has No Clothes
Iraq and the Kurds
Back to Basics: Israel's Arab Minority and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Lebanon's Palestinian Dilemma
In Heavy Waters: Iran's Nuclear Program, the Risk of War and Lessons from Turkey
Breaking Point? Yemen's Southern Question
Failing Oversight: Iraq's Unchecked Government
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Israel and Palestine After the UN
Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (VIII)
Palestinian Reconciliation: Plus ça change
Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (VII)
Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (VI)
Popular Protests in North Africa and The Middle East (V): Making Sense of Libya
Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (IV): Tunisia's Way
Soulèvements populaires en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient (IV) : la voie tunisienne
Popular Protests in North Africa and The Middle East (III): The Bahrain Revolt
Radical Islam in Gaza
Iraq and the Kurds: Confronting Withdrawal Fears
Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (II)
Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (I)
Trial by Fire
Loose Ends: Iraq's Security Forces Between US Drawdown and Withdrawal
Squaring the Circle: Palestinian Security Reform Under Occupation
Drums of War: Israel and the 'Axis of Resistance'
Lebanon's Politics: The Sunni Community and Hariri's Future Current
Tipping Point? Palestinians and the Search for a New Strategy
Iraq's Uncertain Future
Reshuffling the Cards? (2)
Reshuffling the Cards? (1)
Palestine: Salvaging Fatah
Iraq's New Battlefront: The Struggle Over Ninewa
Israel's Religious Right and the Question of Settlements
Iraq and the Kurds
Les élections libanaises
Yemen: Defusing the Saada Time Bomb
Gaza's Unfinished Business
Nurturing Instability: Lebanon's Palestinian Refugee Camps
Engaging Syria? US Constraints and Opportunities
Iraq's Provincial Elections - The Stakes
Turkey and Iraqi Kurds - Conflict or Cooperation?
Oil for Soil - Toward a Grand Bargain on Iraq and the Kurds
Ruling Palestine II - The West Bank Model
La Nouvelle Équation Libanaise - Le role Central des Chrétiens
Failed Responsibilities - Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon
Egypt's Muslim Brothers - Confrontation or Integration?
Iraq after the Surge II - The Need for a New Political Strategy
Iraq after the Surge I - The New Sunni Landscape
Ruling Palestine I - Gaza under Hamas
Iraq's Civil War, the Sadrists and the Surge
Inside Gaza - The Challenge of Clans and Families
Shiite Politics in Iraq - The role of the Supreme Council
Hizbollah and the Lebanese Crisis
After Gaza
Where is Iraq Heading? Lessons from Basra
Western Sahara - Out of the Impasse
Western Sahara - The Cost of the Conflict
Iraq and the Kurds - Resolving the Kirkuk Crisis
Restarting Israeli-Syrian Negotiations
After Mecca - Engaging Hamas
Egypt's Sinai Question
After Baker-Hamilton - What to do in Iraq
Israel/Hizbollah/Lebanon - Avoiding Renewed Conflict
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: To Reach a Lasting Peace
Israel/Palestine/Lebanon - Climbing Out of the Abyss
Iraq and the Kurds - The Brewing Battle Over Kirkuk
Iraq's Muqtada Al-Sadr - Spoiler or Stabiliser
Palestinians, Israel, and the Quartet - Pulling Back from the Brink
La Transition Politique en Mauritanie - Bilan et Perspectives
The Next Iraqi War? Sectarianism and Civil Conflict
Iran - Is There a way out of the Nuclear Impasse?
In their own Words - Reading the Iraqi Insurgency
Enter Hamas - The Challenges of Political Integration
Managing the Gathering Storm
The Shiite Question in Saudi Arabia
The Jerusalem Powder Keg
Disengagement and its Discontents - What will the Israeli Settlers do?
Iraq - Don't Rush the Constitution
Contestation Islamiste en Mauritanie - Menace ou bouc Émissaire?
Bahrain's Sectarian Challenge
Syria After Lebanon, Lebanon After Syria
Iran in Iraq - How Much Influence?
Understanding Islamism
Disengagement and After - Where Next for Sharon and the Likud?
Reforming Egypt - In Search of a Strategy
Iraq - Allaying Turkey's Fears Over Kurdish Ambitions
What Can the US Do in Iraq?
Iraq - Can Local Governance Save Central Government?
Who Governs the West Bank?
Saudi Arabia Backgrounder - Who are the Islamists?
Reconstructing Iraq
Islamism, Violence and Reform in Algeria - Turning the Page
Can Saudi Arabia Reform Itself?
Iraq's Transition - On a Knife Edge
Iraq's Kurds - Toward an Historic Compromise?
Identity Crisis - Israel and its Arab Citizens
Syria Under Bashar (II): Domestic Policy Challenges
Syria Under Bashar (I): Foreign Policy Challenges
Palestinian Refugees and the Politics of Peacemaking
Dealing With Hamas
Iraq - Building a new Security Structure
Iraq's Constitutional Challenge
Dealing with Iran's Nuclear Program
Governing Iraq
The Israeli-Palestinian Roadmap - What a Settlement Freeze Means and Why it Matters
Algeria - Unrest and Impasse in Kabylia
A Middle East Roadmap to Where?
Islamic Social Welfare Activism in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
War in Iraq - Managing Humanitarian Belief
War in Iraq - Political Challenges After the Conflict
War in Iraq - What's Next for the Kurds?
Iraq Policy Briefing - Is There an Alternative to War?
Yemen - Coping with Terrorism and Violence in a Fragile State
Old Games, New Rules - Conflict on the Israel-Lebanon Border
Iraq Backgrounder - What Lies Beneath
Iran - The Struggle for the Revolution's Soul
Middle East Endgame III - Israel, Syria and Lebanon
Middle East Endgame II - How a Comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian Peace Settlement Would Look
Middle East Endgame I - Getting to a Comprehensive Arab-Israeli Peace Settlement
A Time to Lead - The International Community and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict