Policy Analysis

This older facade brand has been brought out of retirement during the summer surge of Iraqi militia attacks on U.S. targets.

Since experiencing major upheaval and demands for change in 2019, the country has achieved real gains in its political transition, but it needs serious American assistance to safely advance the fragile process.

Hosting Prince Khalid is a good look for the bilateral relationship, but discussions may prove difficult given complications over defense sales, Israeli normalization, OPEC infighting, and continued fallout over the Khashoggi affair.

Such threats are almost certainly information operations intended to demonstrate resolve and restrict coalition freedom of movement, not precursors to real attacks that could draw heavy U.S. retaliation.

واشنگتن باید برای ایجاد یک آتش‌بس پایدار، بحث‌های مربوط به عادی سازی آبرومندانه روابط بین اسرائیل و عربستان را دنبال کند و حماس را مجبور سازد که بین راکت‌های خود و بازسازی یکی را انتخاب کند.

اقدام آمریکا در توقیف دامنه ده‌ها وبسایت رسانه‌های ایرانی بعید است تاثیر مستقیمی بر فعالیت‌های رسانه‌ای، هسته‌ای یا تروریستی ایران داشته باشد اما می‌تواند به مثابهٔ زنگ خطر دیگری برای اهداف نهایی رژیم ایران و عملکرد آن عمل کند.

با هموار ساختن مسیر ابراهیم رئیسی برای رسیدن به ریاست‌ جمهوری، حکومت ایران در تلاش است تا از مشارکت اندک رای‌دهندگان پیشگیری کند و برای او در یک پیروزی گسترده رای اعتماد بگیرد.

حمایت مردمی از اصلاح‌طلبان در میان رای‌دهندگان سرخوردهٔ ایرانی از بین رفته است و همتی و حلقه نزدیکان او نمی‌توانستند برای اجتناب از مشارکت پایین و از دست دادن آرا کار چندانی بکنند.

Starting in early October 2019, when Iraq witnessed a swell of large protests in the capital, Baghdad, along with other cities in the south, protesters were violently repressed—the harshest crackdown on protesters since the downfall of Saddam’s regime in 2003.

The next envoy will be asked to find a quick path to peace where no obvious one exists, armed with little leverage for budging the emboldened and well-positioned Houthis.

Cross-border access into Syria has become a stress test for Putin and Biden’s nascent relationship, so what exactly will it take for their governments to reach a durable agreement?

The Islamic State's strategic understandings of geographic territory, time, and victory are critical elements in its potential for a resurgence.

Washington's current regional posture of heavy presence but strategic diffidence offers China the best of both worlds—a continued American security umbrella over countries increasingly interested in diversifying their great power relationships.

The issue will likely dominate discussions at the next OPEC+ meeting, but the longer-term economic and geopolitical repercussions are trickier to gauge.

Tehran’s provision of training and weapons to regional militants never stopped even under heavy U.S. sanctions, so the Biden administration needs to do much more than just reinstate the JCPOA.

Striking back one time in twelve will not stop Iranian proxy attacks, so Washington must consider more consistent and painful retaliation in order to protect Americans in the Middle East.

Attacks on coalition points of presence are increasing in quantity and quality, making U.S. fatalities increasingly likely unless deterrence is restored.

Such weapons have spread surprisingly slowly since the end of World War II, but this template may be changing amid unsustainable ambiguity over the future of Tehran’s program.

In order to understand the recent surge in migrants to Spanish enclaves in Morocco, one must understand the lopsided economic relationship between the EU and African countries.

Reforms are needed to open greater opportunities for Iraqi women's political representation.