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.
Did Washington overplay its hand by not brokering with the more moderate government in Tehran when it had the chance?
Sens. Sanders and Markey and Rep. Khanna want to cut off all aid to Saudi Arabia. But will their efforts survive NDAA vote?
Parties to the Iran nuclear deal should focus on how to normalize their economic relationship in the long term.
It’s an inside story of how Congress failed to hold the executive branch accountable for a big misstep in US foreign policy.
Nearly 50 national and local groups say Iranians are badly in need of humanitarian goods regardless of whether the negotiations continue.
Washington must not allow anyone to suck it into self-serving strategies of confrontation in the Middle East or elsewhere.
At the very least, an incremental process of détente might lower political temperatures in the Gulf while winning support from Western leaders.
Aside from avoiding U.S. sanctions, Iran’s new president needs to mollify hardliners and separate himself from his predecessor.
Neither country can afford the setbacks that often are the result of hubris. Both have bigger geopolitical, diplomatic, and economic fish to fry.
While Manama is unlikely to reverse course on diplomatic ties with Israel, the Palestinian cause still has strong support in Bahraini society.
Meanwhile hawks in Washington are encouraging President Ilham Aliyev to stoke tensions with Tehran.
The White House reportedly wouldn’t commit to staying in the deal for the remainder of the president’s term.
The survey did not show evidence that the regime is close to collapse.
Well ahead of ‘normalization,’ Middle East elites were tapping into Tel Aviv’s influence in Washington, much to both’s advantage.
The two foreign ministers also discussed how to resolve transportation issues in new post-war order in southern Armenia.
This week the secretary of state seemed to encourage Yair Lapid’s talk about using force. Is diplomacy dead?
Unfortunately too much time has passed and there may be no compelling reason for either side to return to talks.
To his home country of Pakistan he was a patriot. To many others he was a scientist-smuggler who helped start Iran’s nuclear program.
Nine months into the Biden administration and its Yemen peace initiative, the momentum toward peace seems to have stalled.
The usual suspects in Washington are calling for Biden to get involved but there’s no national interest at stake.