The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies gives Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo the ammo they need to see to it that Iran sees no relief during the COVID-19 crisis.
Saudi Arabia recently announced a ceasefire in Yemen, and then immediately violated it. What’s next?
European governments should shift their central focus to proactively protecting and bolstering, rather than further squeezing, those Syrian societal forces that are still standing.
Gantz was never going to stop annexation, but his partnership with Netanyahu will now make it easier for the new government to move forward on it in a more effective way.
Posen and Walt concurred that the American military presence in the Middle East greatly outmatches the region’s importance, and that it ought to be promptly reduced.
Hawks in Washington can’t quit regime change in Tehran despite the piles of evidence of how it will backfire tremendously.
Gantz supports unilateral annexation, and he does not stop at the so-called “major settlement blocs.”
In places like Tunisia, Algeria, Sudan, and Libya, the three countries have sought to stymie citizen uprisings, meddle in elections, arm allies, strengthen military rule, and wage disinformation campaigns.
The Trump administration is contributing to Iran’s COVID-19 crisis by refusing to suspend sanctions. But Iran’s self-imposed isolation is also a major factor.
Under international law, a foreign military occupying another territory is responsible for meeting the population’s humanitarian needs.
Europe’s workaround U.S. secondary sanctions is finally operational but will it be enough?
MbS has made a mess of Saudi foreign and domestic policy. What will happen if Trump isn’t around anymore to back him up?
Gantz didn’t have the extra motivation to carry on the fight that Netanyahu does of using the prime minister’s position to avoid a criminal trial and, very likely, a prison sentence.
The Green Movement was a warning that the outsized ideational and material resources possessed by the IRGC and its many proxies are rendered impotent unless the leadership can develop a coherent cultural message, suited to the needs and preferences of younger Iranians.
China has been directing aid to Middle Eastern governments to combat COVID-19, but China’s murky past in relations with the Arab World doesn’t mean its image will improve.
Middle Eastern rulers are not learning the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, nor do they see it as an opportunity to negotiate new social contracts.
A President Biden would need to work hard to reintegrate U.S. foreign policy with the European Union or risk the EU drifting away as a strategically autonomous power.
In Moscow and Ankara, two strongly nationalistic leaders, both endowed with a wily realpolitik-style realism as well as a strong dose of paranoia, perform an intriguing and complex diplomatic dance around each other.
The disinformation campaign against a new United Nations database aims to legitimize the Israeli settler movement and those who illegally profit from it.
The time may have finally arrived for the Palestinians to disabuse themselves of the hope that the status quo Arab political order could help them.
The past months have seen an unprecedented level of diplomatic engagement on the part of Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the Eastern Mediterranean.
