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Middle East and North Africa
Foreign Relations· 5 days agoCFR experts discuss Iran’s attack on Israel and the escalation of the conflict. Steven Cook is the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle east and African ...
Iran: Iranians Want To Give Peace A Chance
Strategy Page· 2 days agoAs it is, Iran's government is threatening to revive the nuclear weapons program it insisted no longer exist (though most Iranians thought otherwise). While ...
Israel: Plausible Paranoia And Righteous Retribution
Strategy Page· 6 days agoJune 18, 2019: Iran has, since a religious dictatorship took over in the 1980s, declared itself at war with Israel and the United States. Since 2012 Iran
Putin Signs Landmark Security Deal With North Korea
Foreign Policy Magazine· 3 days agoIn retaliation, South Korea signaled its intent to consider sending arms to Ukraine.
Israel: Malignant Obsessions
Strategy Page· 3 days agoAugust 13, 2019: In the south, Israel has decided to build a second border barrier to protect Israeli communities near the Gaza border. Given the growing number of armed Hamas men trying to ...
Yemen: Seeking Salvation With Spin
Strategy Page· 1 day agoThe war would have ended by now, from mutual exhaustion, were it not for the intervention of two local superpowers; Iran for the Shia tribes and Saudi Arabia for the Yemeni ...
Iraq: Bad Habits
Strategy Page· 5 days agoSeptember 8, 2020: The new prime minister (Mustafa al Kadhimi) is decidedly hostile to Iran. Such a meeting was important because Kadhimi is the first post-Saddam (2003) prime ...