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        Israel's Wars
    

        The Gaza ceasefire is falling apart
    
Paul R. Pillar
October 31, 2025

        Can Egypt really stop Israel from attacking Iran again?
    
Elfadil Ibrahim
October 23, 2025

        These Israeli-backed gangs could wreck the Gaza ceasefire
    
Connor Echols
October 22, 2025

        Israel wants to pay stipend to US pastors to spread the word
    
Nick Cleveland-Stout
October 15, 2025

        Most Read
    

        Hegseth dropped big Venezuela easter egg into Quantico speech
    
Jennifer Kavanagh
November 03, 2025

        Arab leaders are no longer buying Washington's Iran story
    
Trita Parsi
November 04, 2025

        Ukraine's 'Busification' — forced conscription — is tip of the iceberg
    
Ian Proud
November 04, 2025

        Cheney, architect of endless war, helped kill our faith in leaders
    
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Jim Lobe
November 04, 2025

        Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP’s reckoning on Israel
    
Connor Echols
November 04, 2025
Middle East
        Trump doesn't need to buy Saudi loyalty with a security pact
    A deal carries many risks, and Riyadh's interests already largely align with Washington's
Christopher Preble
Will Smith
November 11, 2025
Latin America
        US strikes are blowing up more than just boats in LatAm
    
Lee Schlenker
November 11, 2025
Middle East
        Trump brings out the big guns for Syrian leader's historic visit
    
Connor Echols
November 10, 2025
Military Industrial Complex
        America First? For DC swamp, it's always 'War First'
    
Senator Rand Paul
November 10, 2025
Latin America
        Dick Cheney's ghost has a playbook for war in Venezuela
    
Paul R. Pillar
November 10, 2025
Latin America
        Invading Panama and deposing Noriega in 1989 was easy, right?
    
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
November 10, 2025
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        US to build major new base near Gaza: Israeli media
    America’s role in post-war governance of the enclave is rapidly growing
Connor Echols
November 11, 2025

        Nothing says 'Veterans Day' than military families in a food line
    
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
November 11, 2025

        Biden greenlit Israel’s strikes in Lebanon, says former Israeli diplomat
    
Connor Echols
November 07, 2025

        Senate vote fails to block Trump attacks on Venezuela
    
Stavroula Pabst
November 06, 2025

        Arab leaders are no longer buying Washington's Iran story
    
Trita Parsi
November 04, 2025

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        Africa
    

        What Trump should know before going 'guns-a-blazing' into Nigeria
    
Taiwo Hassan
November 07, 2025

        Sudan's bloody war is immune to Trump's art of the deal
    
Elfadil Ibrahim
October 30, 2025

        No, Trump did not 'end' the war in the Congo. It's as bloody as ever.
    
Dan M. Ford
October 17, 2025

        Mali in crisis: When the junta has no one left to blame but itself
    
Dan M. Ford
October 11, 2025
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        Latin America
    

        US strikes are blowing up more than just boats in LatAm
    
Lee Schlenker
November 11, 2025

        Invading Panama and deposing Noriega in 1989 was easy, right?
    
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
November 10, 2025

        Dick Cheney's ghost has a playbook for war in Venezuela
    
Paul R. Pillar
November 10, 2025

        Death knell for the Summit of the Americas?
    
Jorge Heine
November 06, 2025
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        Europe
    

        Ukraine's 'Busification' — forced conscription — is tip of the iceberg
    
Ian Proud
November 04, 2025

        On Russia-Ukraine, the misdiagnosed patient is flatlining
    
George Beebe
October 27, 2025

        Inflating Russian missile costs hides our own weapons crisis
    
Mike Fredenburg
October 27, 2025

        Why German rearmament isn't happening
    
Peter Rutland
Leo Bader
October 27, 2025
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        north america
    

        Trade review process could rock the calm in US-Mexico relations
    
Karthik Sankaran
September 15, 2025

        The rising US-NATO-Russia security dilemma in the Arctic
    
Pavel Devyatkin
September 11, 2025

        Trump takes US military one step closer to bombing drug cartels
    
Dan DePetris
August 11, 2025

        Trump lifted sanctions on Syria. Now do Cuba.
    
William LeoGrande
Geoff Thale
July 08, 2025
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Israel's Wars

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A deal carries many risks, and Riyadh's interests already largely align with Washington's

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America’s role in post-war governance of the enclave is rapidly growing

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Middle east

A deal carries many risks, and Riyadh's interests already largely align with Washington's

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