The MENA Energy Recap is a quarterly review of key energy developments that took place in the region from April through June of 2025 and what they signal in the months ahead. The Recap views these ...

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In place of a coherent strategy or vision, Trump’s approach to the Middle East is driven by dramatic gestures, symbolic ...

MOHAMMAD AYATOLLAHI TABAAR is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Associate Professor of International Affairs at Texas A ...

President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is facing questioning from lawmakers for the first time since he was ousted as national security adviser. Mike Waltz ...

An Abraham Accords-centric approach tailors the Cold War-era “containment” strategy that George F. Kennan formulated to the Middle East, with Iran standing in for the Soviet Union.

The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.

The revelation of Chinese military support to Pakistan during the military confrontation that followed the Pakistan-directed ...

The recent strikes could convince Iran and other states that building nuclear weapons is the only way to prevent such attacks ...

For much of the modern era, the Middle East has occupied centre stage in global geopolitics, owing to its strategic geography ...

Trump, who scorns multilateralism and prefers bilateral muscle-flexing, views this growing coalition as a direct threat to ...

I’m certainly not an expert in geopolitical issues, or in war strategies. I, like a lot of you, hate the thought of people dying in battle, whether they are Americans or not. In the aftermath of the ...