Experts: Mideast states should take lead in building regional security
Chatham House survey finds agreement that regional actors must bear responsibility for their neighborhood’s conflicts.
Chatham House survey finds agreement that regional actors must bear responsibility for their neighborhood’s conflicts.
El Beblawi is one of Egypt’s most notorious human rights abusers, and yet arms sales to Cairo seem to come first.
New talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran could advance regional and US interests, if spoilers are put at bay.
The president seems fine with keeping the Middle East awash in US arms, one of many strikes against this $23B UAE deal.
This isn’t about seizing islands on the other side of the globe, but keeping territory in the Pentagon bureaucracy.
Secretary of State Blinken recently placed the challenge in the contradictory context of great power competition.
If young people follow the money, they’ll find just how misplaced the government’s priorities are.
We cannot accept at face value that the US and Saudi Arabia are committed to peace when their actions demonstrate the opposite.
The groupthink is leading to the marginalization of ideas and people who call for a new approach to Moscow. And it’s getting ugly.
All this suggests that after a wind-down of the GWOT, we may just be swapping one boogeyman for another.
The anti-Russian Blob has taken its first scalp in the Biden Administration, torpedoing an esteemed expert’s appointment to the NSC.
The latest romanticizing of events — Masterpiece Theater’s “Atlantic Crossing” — diminishes real life protagonists and falsifies history.
The Saudi “Operation Decisive Storm” was anything but, and now the only way they can end this is through diplomacy.
The sunk cost fallacy has mired the US in endless conflict.
Compartmentalizing these issues will avoid an unnecessary conflict and provide space to highlight abuses in Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
We can’t let external forces in the region tie Washington to the Middle East by inflating what is a domestic militancy.
A day after ending a war in Afghanistan, Biden seems to be going down the road of a new one with Moscow.
Married to an airman with depression and suicidal ideation since his deployment, this advocate says the war couldn’t end sooner.
A prominent figure in Iran’s pro-reform camp recently criticized an adviser to the Supreme Leader for being duped on the JCPOA.
Trump’s rekindling of animosity between Washington and Havana will serve as a blip on the road to rapprochement.
Biden played this well, he said you can either have new weapons or you can have this old war. In the end, it wasn’t much of a contest.