Rehabilitating Assad: The struggle for influence in Syria’s endgame
How Damascus could become the next arena for geopolitical competition between the region’s Arab power centers and Iran.
How Damascus could become the next arena for geopolitical competition between the region’s Arab power centers and Iran.
In the midst of an economic collapse and an energy crisis, Lebanon has found itself in a tug of war between the United States and Iran.
The State Department’s terrorist lists have become politicized and counterproductive.
The United States is plunging further into its self-defeating foreign policy with new “maximum pressure” sanctions on Syria and anyone doing business with it.
The Trump administration recently blocked Iran form getting an IMF loan amid the COVID-19 crisis and it’s likely to do it again because of Hezbollah’s role in Lebanon’s government
The argument advanced by Pompeo, Grenell, AJC and others that banning Hezbollah is not an obstacle to engaging with the Lebanese government is disingenuous at best.
US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell pushed the Germans hard on officially designating Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization.
The political fallout from Trump’s kill order will extend far wider than Iraq.
The consequences of the U.S. attack on Iraqi Shiite militia group Kataib Hezbollah far outweigh whatever short sighted benefits the Trump administration is claiming.