Acts of violence by extremist settlers have risen sharply in scale and severity, shifting from largely reactive incidents to a more proactive, strategic effort aimed at displacing Palestinian ...

Hezbollah and Amal are already manipulating where donor funding goes and who gets credit for reconstruction, so Washington and its partners should coordinate ways to bypass them before the country’s ...

Shivane Anand is a research associate in The Washington Institute's Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East. The visit will probably confirm the ...

Tahani Elmogrbi is a Libya specialist, a MENA conflict-resolution advisor, and political analyst with extensive experience in democracy and governance, peacebuilding, and foreign policy. She advises ...

David Schenker is the Taube Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics. He is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern ...

Heba El Koudsy is an Egyptian-American journalist who has served as Washington bureau chief for Asharq Al-Awsat since 2017, and previously worked for several Egyptian and Gulf publications in Egypt, ...

For decades, Tehran has repeatedly exploited Western diplomatic urgency to extract concessions, buy time, and refill its coffers; the answer is to turn time itself against the increasingly vulnerable ...

Loosening Tehran’s grip on the strait and its disruption of the global economy would entail not only reducing threats to navigation, but also increasing pressure on the Iranian economy in order to ...

Since the June war, Tehran has hastily doubled down on Russian and Chinese partnerships to weather sanctions and deter future attacks, but Moscow and Beijing are hesitant to invest deeply in ...

Khairuldeen Makhzoomi is a geopolitical analyst specializing in Iraqi politics, armed groups, and political economy in the Middle East. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science and Middle ...

Instead of pinning a terrorist designation on the entire group, the Trump administration should focus more narrowly on the national security threats presented by individual Brotherhood branches and ...

Nawzad Shukri holds a PhD in politics and international relations from Leicester University. He currently works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Salahaddin in the Kurdistan region of ...