The American people have spoken. The 2026 midterm elections have reshaped the political landscape in Washington, giving ...

Long before the present war, I argued that Iran needed a different leadership—or a fundamental transformation of the regime ...

The Middle East has rarely had so many partnerships, strategic agreements, and security arrangements, and rarely has it been ...

President Donald Trump’s intransigence on Iran should not be underestimated. From the beginning, his approach followed a clear sequence: strike, weaken, test, and enforce. American power changed the ...

It is a truth seldom acknowledged that the United States has conducted a successful foreign policy since the end of World War II. Over the last eight decades – with, of course, conspicuous exceptions ...

On April 27, Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrives in Astana on a state visit. It highest-level Israeli visit since that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in December 2016 and the first such visit ...

When President Donald Trump said (in 2025) Ukraine could regain its territory, it wasn’t just a comment about borders. It touched a deeper strategic question that many in Washington still hesitate to ...

A decade after his previous visit to Egypt, Chinese President Xi Jinping has returned to Cairo at a markedly different moment in both Egyptian-Chinese relations and Middle Eastern geopolitics. His ...

As Israel and the United States undertake operations of unprecedented scale against Iran, with a regional war now underway and global implications mounting, many critics are asking why this is ...

The end of the Israel-U.S.-Iran war is unlikely to restore the Gulf to its prewar equilibrium. Instead, it leaves behind a region unsettled, recalibrating, and more internally complex than at any ...

After Iran’s despotic regime and its proxies have been defeated militarily and politically, the next war will already have begun. That war will be fought not only with swords, but with words and ...