US Policy
An Increasing Number of Non-NATO Allies Flirt With, If Not Tilt Toward, Beijing
The Iranian President, Flag Officers, and Intelligence Chief Should Rise to Their Positions Knowing They Will Have a Lifespan of Weeks, If Not Days
The Emirate Sued to Block Texas from Releasing Texas A&M’s Funding Records Under the State’s Public-Records Law
The Mecca Pact Is the Third Iteration of a Single Saudi Effort to Assemble a Deterrence Substitute for a Diminished American Security Umbrella
Pakistan Has Served as China’s Delivery Agent in the Region and Promoted Chinese Defense Platforms
The U.S. and Regional Countries Should Build Pipelines to Send Oil from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean and the Arabian Sea
Foes Seek to Weaken the West by Launching a Confluence of Influence Operations Designed to Sow Division and Fracture the Political Consensus
Interview with Cypriot Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos
A Senior Hamas Operative in Istanbul Allegedly Used a U.K.-Registered Islamic Charity to Secretly Channel Millions of Dollars and Truckloads of Goods to a Terrorism-Designated Organization
Not Surprisingly, Iran Has a Very Different Version of How Matters Played Out over the Weekend
The Island of Abu Musa Has Been Rumored to Be One of Iran’s Main Repositories for Chemical Weapons.
The Search for Alternative Mideast Routes Exposes How the Vulnerabilities of a Disrupted Flow of Goods Can Rattle International Economies and Financial Markets
Iran Appears Confident That It Can Survive and Is Conducting Aggressive Diplomacy to Fend off Attacks on Infrastructure
Compensating Victims of Iranian Attacks Would Demonstrate Washington’s Commitment to Its Regional Partners
Riyadh Continues to Play a Calculated Game of Evasion
While Israel Is Beating the Drums of War, Trump Seems to Be Marching to a Different Beat
Drones Kept Flying, Rockets Were Falling, and Iran’s Proxies Keep Operating as If Nothing Has Changed
China Offered Somaliland More than a Quarter of a Billion Dollars to Drop Taiwan. Somaliland Said No
While Somaliland Is Impoverished, It Is Also Principled
U.S. Envoy Boulos Has Raised Eyebrows Throughout the Region Because of His Confusing Strategic Logic