Policy Analysis

Regional players will likely be testing Muscat in the next few months, so Washington needs to help ensure continuity between reigns.

هم ترامپ و هم خامنه‌ای پس از بحران اخیر نیازمند راه خروج هستند و پوتین می‌تواند نقش میانجی بازی کند.

The head of the Counter-Narcoterrorism Operations Center discusses how the group uses drug trafficking and other schemes to fund its activities, and what the DEA is doing to stop it.

After the fall of Sirte, Erdogan and Putin’s desired ceasefire can only be achieved with Washington’s support.

On the streets of Baghdad, protesters are still mulling over the U.S. air raid on Friday morning that killed General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC’s) Quds Force near Baghdad international airport along with nine others, including Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis.

With the latest unexpected escalation between Iran and the United States in Iraq, the ongoing challenges of Syria have, for the moment, become a less-discussed point of regional tension. However, for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which precariously continues to control an autonomous region of Northeastern Syria, the last few

Throughout its history, the United States has consolidated its influence and hegemony through strong relationships with countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa, a region which holds a strategic geopolitical position due to their sea and land ports, along with enormous oil reserves and significant economic potential. However, this

The IRGC didn’t spend decades and billions building up Iran’s regional satellites for them to simply stand aside if the homeland is attacked, which Trump has vowed to do if the situation escalates further.

A host of crucial multilateral interests are baked into the U.S. presence, from keeping the Islamic State down, to protecting vulnerable regional allies, to preventing Iran from taking Iraq's oil revenues.

After years of violence, today’s Iraq is a country on the precipice of potential widespread bloodshed and destabilization. The country has already experienced months of large anti-government protests met with a brutal government and militia response. On top of these efforts—which have unseated Iraq’s most recent Prime Minister and have

More than two months after the eruption of unprecedented nationwide protests, Iran’s proxy political actors seem confident that they have been able to thwart the threat to their power, which the vigorous expressions of the “October 17 Revolution” represented in Lebanon. It is clear that the Iranian proxy camp views

علی خامنه‌ای، رهبر ایران، در تازه‌ترین سخنرانی‌اش، به جای آن‌که از انتقام موشکی ایران و یا تهدیدهای بیشتر سخن‌ بگوید، به ستایش از فضائلِ وحدت ملی در پس اهداف انقلابی رژیم پرداخت.

The group has promised bloody retribution for Suleimani’s death, but in reality it will likely stay focused on rebuilding its own diminished stature at home.

An in-depth look at how the Islamic Republic manages escalation in the gray zone between war and peace, leverages asymmetries to achieve disproportionate effects, and employs its hybrid force structure for maximum effect.

با توجه به تجدید ساختار اخیر سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی، احتمالا نیروی قدس تحت رهبری اسماعیل قاآنی بیشتر شاهد ثبات خواهد بود تا تغییر؛ هرچند پیشینه بوروکراتیک قاآنی با شیوه رهبری خطرپذیر و کاریزماتیک سلیمانی تفاوت زیادی دارد

مقامات دولتی و رسانه‌های روسیه این واقعه را محکوم می‌کنند، اما پوتین به‌خوبی آگاه است که نقش شکنندۀ او به عنوان میانجی منطقه‌ای، به رفتار سنجیدهٔ او حولِ پیشبینی‌ناپذیری واشنگتن وابسته است.

If the United States signals its readiness to do more militarily while also considering compromise, it could spur other governments to apply more effective collective pressure on Tehran.

از تشییع‌جنازه‌های سلیمانی با حضور انبوهی از مردم که بگذریم، وجههٔ او به عنوان مظهر ناسیونالیسم ایرانی بیشترِ مردم خاورمیانه را نسبت به او بدگمان یا حتی فعالانه دشمن کرد. برای همین، بعید است بعد از مرگ او آمریکا با انتقام عمومی گسترده مواجه شود.

As Iraq signals its willingness to evict U.S. forces following the airstrike, the time has come for discipline and a focus on shared interests.

The incident might convince Khamenei and his advisors that their meddling in the Middle East is jeopardizing the regime’s domestic stability.