In the wake of agreeing to a two-week cease-fire on April 7, both the United States and Iran are claiming victory in their war. Each says the same thing: We held out and the other guy blinked first.

The performance should give pause to U.S. adversaries that have been watching the war in Iran unfold. Massive volleys of long-range drones and ballistic missiles are a preferred offensive tool of ...

For decades, Europe assumed that its U.S. ally would come to its defense if the continent faced a direct attack from its neighbor to the east. But U.S. President Donald Trump’s hostility toward Europe ...

For now, Washington seems to care far more about the fortunes of Venezuela’s economy, notably its oil industry, than those of its democracy. Yet those priorities have placed Venezuela in a paradoxical ...

BÁLINT MADLOVICS is a Junior Visiting Researcher at the Democracy Institute of Central European University in Budapest. BÁLINT MAGYAR is former Minister of Education of Hungary and a Senior Visiting ...

In late March, both Israel and Iran attacked gas fields in the Persian Gulf, the most dramatic escalation yet in the Iran war. By striking upstream energy infrastructure, the belligerents have ensured ...

Polling by Arab Barometer, a survey project that we co-lead with others, conducted in the months after October 7 showed a sea change in public opinion. As ordinary people in the region witnessed ...

Three years into the country’s catastrophic civil war, Sudan’s patchwork of battlefields has hardened into something that resembles a de facto partition. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s Sudanese ...

But it has done little to resolve the strategic incoherence at the heart of the U.S.-Israeli campaign that neither government has been willing to acknowledge publicly: the two partners have been ...

Until the cease-fire announced on April 7, the United States largely confined its operations against Iran to the sky and the sea. President Donald Trump appears to have understood that a large-scale ...

Within days of the initial U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran on February 28, 2026, the world was plunged into an energy crisis. Tehran’s near shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20 ...

There are sound reasons for optimism that European governments can reduce their military reliance: defense spending is rising, particularly in countries in northern and eastern Europe, and Europe is ...