Abraham Accords

July 31, 2025 | Ellie Bufkin |

Keir Starmer’s empty threat won’t save Gaza, it will reward the terrorists

The U.K.’s Prime Minister tried to make a splash in the Middle East with his announcement that he will recognize a Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire and commits to a...

July 17, 2025 | Seth J. Frantzman |

The Druze Test: A Deep Dive into Why Israel is Bombing Syria Again

Israel’s Druze Test in Syria  On July 16, the Israel Defense Forces carried out airstrikes in the heart of Damascus. The IDF said it had targeted Syria’s military headquarters and...

July 8, 2025 | |

Trump Hosts Netanyahu at White House as Momentum Builds for Gaza Ceasefire

Trump Pushing Gaza Ceasefire: For the third time since taking office, President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on July 7 as the...

July 3, 2025 | Max Meizlish |

U.S. Replaces Comprehensive Sanctions on Syria With More Targeted Tools

The United States rolled back decades-old comprehensive sanctions on Syria on June 30, but the story is not as simple as either media reports or the administration itself makes it seem. The executive order...

July 2, 2025 | |

‘Striking All Components of the Axis Iran Has Built’: IDF Captures Iranian Operatives in Southern Syria

Israeli Forces Capture Iranian Terrorist Cell: The Israel Defense Forces announced the capture of an Iran-affiliated cell in southern Syria. The terrorists were apprehended at night...

June 24, 2025 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Victory over Iran gives Trump the chance to reshape Mid East with trade deals

Israel’s decisive victory over Iran’s Islamist regime has set Tehran’s nuclear plans back years at the least. It has also created a unique opening to normalize ties between Jerusalem...

June 11, 2025 | Natalie Ecanow |

Israel Unveils New Proof of Qatar and Hamas’s Close Collaboration

Despite longstanding evidence to the contrary, Qatar has long maintained that it is not a “sponsor of Hamas,” claiming that no “aid has ever been delivered to Hamas’s political or military wing.”...

June 5, 2025 | Ahmad Sharawi |

Rocket fire marks first attack from Syria on Israel since Assad’s fall

On June 3, at approximately 10 pm Israeli time, two rockets were launched from Syrian territory and landed in the Golan Heights—the first such attack from Syria toward Israel since the fall...

June 4, 2025 | |

Sharaa ‘Responsible for Every Threat’: Terrorists in Syria Launch Rockets Into Israel

Syrian Rockets Hit Israel: The IDF reported that two rockets crossed into Israeli territory from Syria on June 3 for the first time in over a year. The projectiles triggered alarms...

May 24, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh |

Why Dismantling Iran’s Nuclear Program Doesn’t Mean War

When confronted with a firm United States, Iran has remained largely restrained to avoid provoking direct military confrontation.

May 21, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

What Qatar wants, Qatar gets

How a tiny but extraordinarily wealthy emirate buys influence

May 20, 2025 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Lebanon Should Take a Cue from al-Sharaa – and Talk to Israel

A joke has it that Syria’s self-proclaimed president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, offered to build a Trump Tower in Damascus to make up for the two New York towers that Al-Qaeda, al-Sharaa former organization,...

May 16, 2025 | |

Abraham Accords Are Focus of Reported Israel-Syria Talks

Latest Developments Israeli, Syrian Officials Meet: Israel is reportedly holding talks with Syrian officials, even raising the possibility of Damascus joining the Abraham Accords — a series of bilateral...

May 14, 2025 | Ahmad Sharawi |

From Wanted to Welcomed: Trump Meets Syria’s Ahmad al-Sharaa

“I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness,” said President Donald Trump on May 13 during a speech at an investment forum in Riyadh at...

May 14, 2025 | Bill Roggio, Ahmad Sharawi

President Trump meets with a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, lifts sanctions on Syria

President Donald Trump met with Syrian interim president Ahmad al Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al Jolani, a US and UN-designated terrorist and the former leader of Hayat Tahrir al Sham,...

May 13, 2025 | Haisam Hassanein |

How to Promote Holocaust Education in the Middle East

President Donald Trump has the opportunity to build the foundation of regional peace. One way to do so is through education about one of history’s worst atrocities.

April 25, 2025 | |

Lebanon Reprimands Iran Ambassador Over Criticism of Hezbollah Disarmament Moves

Lebanon Tells Iran to Abide by Diplomatic Norms: Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi had rejected “foreign interference” following criticism from Iranian Ambassador Mojtaba...

April 18, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

‘Valid for all countries except Israel’

Authorities in Bangladesh announced that they were reintroducing what is essentially a disclaimer on the passports issued to its citizens.

March 6, 2025 | |

‘Strategic Asset’: Israeli Natural Gas Exports to Arab Neighbors Jumped Over 13 Percent in 2024

Gas Exports Rise Despite War: Israel’s natural gas exports to Egypt and Jordan rose by 13.4 percent in 2024, according to March 5 statements from the country’s Energy Ministry....

March 5, 2025 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Israel Can’t Substitute for the U.S. in the Middle East

The Jewish state can protect its neighborhood, but the Persian Gulf needs a superpower’s attention.