As Iran’s crisis deepens, another question is quietly emerging in Washington: are Tehran’s key partners starting to step back? We asked our great-power competition experts Min Mitchell, who tracks ...
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If I were Khamenei, I would sleep poorly these days. Not because of guilt – tyranny is rarely burdened by scruples – but because fear, once a visitor, quickly becomes an obsessive, clingy ...
The United States, Israel, and Syria announced in a joint statement issued by the U.S. State Department on Tuesday that Syrian and Israeli representatives had reached an understanding during ...
The arrest of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela was not merely a political turning point in Latin America; it was akin to an “earthquake” whose aftershocks reached Tehran and extended from there to ...
Happy new year, and welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing, a new offering from the premier Arabic-first American news and commentary platform about the Middle East. In my year-end edition of the ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks regarding the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces reflected an official view in Israel that what occurred constituted a ...
Nearly two weeks ago, on Dec. 28, Iranians launched a new wave of anti-regime protest that has yet to subside. Unlike previous generations of protestors, those taking to the streets today are not ...
China Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent tour of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan typified his country’s approach to the region: Be boring. Wang spoke of promoting strategic ...
Security contacts between Israel and Syria have returned to the forefront after a suspension lasting nearly two months, under direct U.S. sponsorship and amid pressure exerted by U.S. President ...
After more than four decades since its founding, the Gulf Cooperation Council is once again facing questions about its ability to maintain cohesion as a regional bloc, at a time when internal ...
In a strategic reading of shifting dynamics in the Red Sea, Ilan Berman links Israel’s recognition of “Somaliland” to Tel Aviv’s effort to position itself as a guarantor of international maritime ...