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Amman Is Not Abandoning Washington or Jerusalem, but Chinese Digital Infrastructure Near the Jordan Valley Could Create New Intelligence and Cyber Vulnerabilities
Islamist Violence Has Killed Scores of Christians in Congo and Nigeria, Yet Their Deaths Barely Register in Western Newsrooms
Court Records Detail How Ankara Allegedly Used Its Consulate, Local Personnel, and German Police Information to Monitor Targets Abroad
How Palestinian Martyrdom Turned Death into a Reproducible Visual Culture of Sacrifice, Grief, and Political Mobilization
The Trial of a Hezbollah Suspect in Panama Could Shed New Light on Iranian-Backed Networks Operating Across the Western Hemisphere
A New Israeli Doctrine Takes Shape across the Northern Front
Partisan Politics Cannot Substitute for a Strategy to Defeat Iran
How the Myth of Crisis Imprisoned Arab (And Leftist) Political Thought
Diplomatic Fantasies About a ‘Political Hamas’ Ignore Doctrine, History and the Body Count
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Regime Has Failed to Establish an Effective Framework to Prevent Turkish Companies from Using Bribery to Advance Their Commercial Interests Abroad
Mass Surveillance, Informants and Fear Are the New Weapons of Preemptive Repression
Conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran Are Set to Continue in Altered Form
Militants with Extremist Histories Have Re-Entered Transnational Jihadist Networks from Turkish Territory
Hamas Aims to Establish a Legitimate Political Foothold Across the West Bank Without Moderating Its Core Rejectionist Ideology
Jerusalem, and Islamic Claims There, Are Likely to Form the Symbolic Element That Knits the Emergent Group Together
One of the Most Troubling Threats to Civil Society in the United States Is the Propagation of the False Accusation of Genocide Against Israel
An Increasing Number of Non-NATO Allies Flirt With, If Not Tilt Toward, Beijing
The Move Further Empowers President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Institutionalizes Censorship and Digital Surveillance Under the Guise of National Security
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey Aren’t Going to Go to War for Each Other; They Want to Show the U.S. and Iran They Are Ready to Lead in a Region They See as Destabilized by Jerusalem
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 Mecca Pact Is the Third Iteration of a Single Saudi Effort to Assemble a Deterrence Substitute for a Diminished American Security Umbrella
The Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani Pact Will Not Fight. Israel Should Build the Bloc That Will
More Leaks About President Trump’s Security
