The Palestinian terror organization refuses to release hostages while clinging to its last stronghold in Rafah. So why is the Biden administration throwing the full weight of the U.S. government at Israel to prevent it from routing Hamas?
To achieve victory, Israel must force territorial losses on its enemies
Iran’s drones and missiles are not a joke. They are a declaration of war, and must be treated as such.
How a Zoroastrian celebration of the Persian New Year grew into a broad symbol of cultural resilience and political resistance
The emirate’s role as a back channel between the U.S. and Iran has metastasized into something far more dangerous
A chronicle of the Biden administration’s increasingly absurd attempts to hide its complicity in the worst mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust
The terror state and its various proxy militias—including Hamas—are obviously acting in concert. Why won’t the U.S. admit it?
We’ve learned lessons that can help you better understand a changing, dangerous world
That means destroying Hezbollah and striking Iran. Anything less is a major strategic defeat for Israel and the U.S.
The trail that leads from Tehran to D.C. passes directly through the offices of Robert Malley and the International Crisis Group
For American Iran scholars, fighting the right is more important than criticizing the regime—or listening to Iranians
Far from being uncooperative, Saudi Arabia under MBS is playing precisely the regional role that Obama and Biden have long demanded—only more so
A China-brokered agreement with Iran shocked and dismayed Washington, whose mercurial policy gyrations are getting harder for the Saudis to understand
How the name of a noble civilization disappeared from the map
The new Beijing-brokered deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran is a warning sign of things to come
Mohammed Mossadegh was not a democrat or democratically elected, nor was he toppled by nefarious foreigners
The imprisoned director’s latest film is as powerful for its absences as its images
Iran’s increasingly sophisticated drone and missile strike packages are driving America’s beleaguered allies to seek protection in Beijing
