Letter to Cecile from her father discussing international relations and politics.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about attacks on Arab guerrilla bases.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Israeli strikes sent to Syria and Lebanon.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of five Arab gunmen holding four hostages abroad a Syrian aircrafts at Kuwait Airport have surrendered.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of five Arab gunmen who are holding four hostages abroad a Syrian aircrafts surrendered to authorities in Kuwait ending a four-day drama that stretched from Paris to the Middle East.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about new fighting between Israeli' s and Syrians in the Golan heights area which is viewed as a land grab before troop disengagement.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the State Secretary Kissinger who left Jerusalem for Damascus, Syria with a new Israeli disengagement offer.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the State Secretary who says that some progress is made but no agreement yet in troop disengagement in Golan Heights.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about president Nixon who has named an official party which is headed by secretary Henry Kissinger to accompany him on his ten day trip to Europe and the Middle East.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about president Nixon who spent the day at his Camp David retreat reviewing briefing material for his trip to the Middle East.

Interview with Dr. Jabr Al-Atrash, former Syrian ambassador. In the interview, Dr. Al-Atrash discusses current issues in the middle east.

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This report discusses issues related to peace in the Middle East, including post-Gulf War negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon; U.S. interest in these and continuing negotiations and peacetalks between Middle Eastern countries; and the role of the U.S., the U.N., the European Union, and Russia in Middle Eastern relations.

This report discusses issues related to peace in the Middle East, including post-Gulf War negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon; U.S. interest in these and continuing negotiations and peacetalks between Middle Eastern countries; and the role of the U.S., the U.N., the European Union, and Russia in Middle Eastern relations.

This report discusses the problems facing Iraq as the Islamic State (IS, aka the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL/ISIS) gains power in the region. IS is a transnational Sunni Islamist insurgent and terrorist group that has expanded its control over areas of northwestern Iraq and northeastern Syria since 2013, threatening the security of both countries and drawing increased attention from the international community. The Islamic State has thrived in the disaffected Sunni Muslim-inhabited areas of Iraq and in the remote provinces of Syria torn by the civil war. The Islamic State's tactics have drawn the ire of the international community, increasing U.S. attention on Iraq's political problems and on the civil war in Syria.

This report discusses the current crisis involving the Islamic State, which is a transnational Sunni Islamist insurgent and terrorist group that has expanded its control over areas of parts of Iraq and Syria since 2013. In December 2014, the 113th Congress provided new authorities and funds for efforts to combat the Islamic State organization in Syria and Iraq in the FY2015 national defense authorization (P.L. 113-291) and consolidated appropriations acts (P.L. 113-235).

This report discusses U.S. economic and security assistance to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

This report discusses Syria's chemical weapon supplies, efforts to have them destroyed, recent uses of chemical weapons there, and issues related to undeclared chemical weapon stocks.