Sucked into other people’s wars in Syria
Reports indicate the attack on a US base last month was retaliation for recent Israel strikes. It didn’t kill anyone, but it’s only a matter of time.
Reports indicate the attack on a US base last month was retaliation for recent Israel strikes. It didn’t kill anyone, but it’s only a matter of time.
Parties to the Iran nuclear deal should focus on how to normalize their economic relationship in the long term.
2024 candidates know what the billionaire donor wants, and that’s a hawkish pro-Israel U.S. policy in the Middle East.
PM Khan is allowing radicalism to fester, giving militants more of a say in foreign policy. This is putting a strain on US relations, too.
A US role in helping prop up autocrats and dictators led to its demise.
Unfortunately, the American fantasy of consensual occupation helped sustain our very real post-9/11 wars for 20 years.
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.
Unless he holds everyone to the same level of accountability, Biden will end up holding the bag for Tel Aviv’s latest Palestinian crackdown.
Neither country can afford the setbacks that often are the result of hubris. Both have bigger geopolitical, diplomatic, and economic fish to fry.
A posture review is forthcoming, and pressure is building for withdrawal.
While Manama is unlikely to reverse course on diplomatic ties with Israel, the Palestinian cause still has strong support in Bahraini society.
American withdrawal, coupled with the need to diversify Gulf state economies away from oil, is driving efforts to dial down regional tensions.
Secretary of State Blinken is hailing the deals, but they’re just window dressing on a stalled peace process.
Nine months into the Biden administration and its Yemen peace initiative, the momentum toward peace seems to have stalled.
In just a few years, Doha has emerged from isolation and asserted its place in the region — and in Afghanistan.
The sale of a Russian missile defense system encapsulates how the tide has turned.
The UAE’s slickly managed reputation has lately taken hits for well-publicized offenses including human rights abuses and spying.
If policymakers fancy that the United States has some sort of obligation to “lead,” then they’ll have to reimagine what leading really means.
Biden’s top advisor should use the 3rd anniversary of Khashoggi’s murder to say the US is shutting off the spigot.
The failure of Afghanistan should open our eyes to the fact that we don’t really know other countries and cultures at all.