Policy Analysis

A minor sub-group took credit for recent airport strikes, indicating a return to the "facade" strategy and a role for AAH in the latest escalation.

After two decades of direct U.S. involvement, what went so wrong in Afghanistan compared to the relative successes seen in Iraq?

The process of assuaging the militia support base was carefully stage-managed in the first week of the new year, with Iran and Nujaba setting the ground rules.

A decade after the beginning of the 2011 uprising against Assad, the Autonomous Administration (AA) that controls the northeastern region of Syria faces numerous governance challenges. The author sat down with General Mazloum, the SDF commander in charge of protecting the AA, to discuss its current issues and potential future.

The president is very unlikely to win the next election fair and square, so he may well resort to undermining the vote, disregarding the result, or even fomenting a January 6-like insurrection.

Calls to reject the results of Iraq's October 10 parliamentary election by the Fateh alliance and other parties affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces that underperformed have garnered much attention. Yet the successful strategies and ideologies of relatively new parties that took seats in the recent election cycle deserve a closer look.

Instead of quietly greenlighting the Assad regime’s diplomatic rehabilitation, U.S. officials should escalate economic pressure on its Iranian enablers to regain leverage at the negotiating table.

زمان‌بندی این مانور نظامی و انواع سامانه‌ها و تاکتیک‌های به نمایش درآمده اطلاعات زیادی را درباره پاسخ احتمالی ایران به هر گونه افزایش فشار خارجی آشکار می‌کند.

دولت ظاهرا بر این باور است که حتی بدون کاهش تحریم‌ها یا افزایش درآمد نفت، اقتصاد رشد قابل توجهی خواهد داشت.

مصاحبه‌هایی با یک ژنرال پاکستانی در زندگینامه او نشان می‌دهد که عبدالقدیر خان منبع کلیدی دانش هسته‌ای ایران درباره چگونگی استفاده از اف-۱۶ها برای حمل سلاح اتمی بررسی و آزمایش کرده بوده است.

امارات متحده عربی در موقعیت خوبی قرار دارد تا پیشرفت‌هایی را که در زمینه‌های مختلف به دست آورده، از ایجاد تعادل در روابط با قدرت‌های رقیب منطقه‌ای و جهانی تا ایجاد تنوع در اقتصاد خود و رسیدگی به نگرانی‌های دیرینه محیط زیستی، تداوم بخشد.

The Emirates are the region’s leading destination for the sport, but Saudi Arabia is coming on strong as part of their broader economic competition.

تهران از ترس براندازی با الهام از غرب، اِعمال قوانین اخلاقی را تشدید کرده، استادان دانشگاه را تصفیه کرده، و میلیاردها دلار برای ایجاد یک اینترانت ملی مجزا از اینترنت جهانی هزینه کرده است.

سال‌ها مشارکت آمریکا کرامت زنان افغانستان و امیدهای آن‌ها را به طرز مشهودی ارتقا داد، ولی اکنون رها کردن کامل زنان خطر از دست رفتن بخش بزرگی از این پیشرفت‌ها را به همراه دارد.

Three French experts survey the evolution of twenty-first-century counterterrorism and assess how the struggles against jihadist and far-right violence need to adapt in the coming years.

Reflecting on the thirtieth anniversary of the Soviet collapse makes clear that Moscow and its pragmatic anti-Western approach never fully left the region.

The IS military project led not only to the announcement of a “caliphate,” but to the proliferation of jihadist franchises that devastated countries, displaced millions, and killed tens of thousands.

Although the United States has firmly committed to shifting its focus eastward, it is making clear efforts to build up regional alternatives to protect its interests.

Polling indicates sectarian consensus on most issues, with some variation on Iran.

Residents of the beleaguered country desperately need electricity, but a U.S.-Arab scheme carries complications that could benefit Syria's Assad regime.