Saddam Hussein

February 22, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Kurdish solidarity delegation from Germany visits Israel

The visit was to express the Kurdish solidarity with the Jewish people and the Kurdish sentiments that the Jews are not alone.

January 30, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Gaza War: Israel’s Next Choice Could Be Its Hardest Yet

Jerusalem faces a potential two-front war in Gaza and Lebanon amid a widening proxy conflict engulfing the Middle East.

November 30, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Biden’s Imaginary Iran

Tehran’s hostility is clear, so why does the White House keep ignoring it?

November 16, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Iran tries to push Iraqi militias to carry out more attacks – analysis

Iraqi militias such as Kataib Hezbollah continue to threaten US forces, claiming they are fighting the US in Iraq because the US is supporting Israel; Iran views this as a regional war against the US

October 19, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Iran continues to lie about hospital explosion to fuel conflict

Iran’s regime has mobilized its media machine quickly, after Hamas claimed an explosion at a hospital in Gaza had led to hundreds of deaths from an Israeli airstrike. It is now known, and widely...

August 26, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

‘Ghosts of Beirut’ gets Hezbollah’s most wanted all wrong

Showtime miniseries is thrilling but its portrayal of Hezbollah’s American-killing Imad Mughniyeh is wide off the historical mark

July 27, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

American Military Aid to Israel Serves Both Countries Well

A response to a dangerous proposal

May 24, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Militias are a symptom, not a cure

Armed militias, wherever they operate, break existing systems, but like ruling regimes before them, typically fail to offer anything new or better.

May 23, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

The Road to Israel-Saudi Normalization Runs Through Washington

Open ties between the two nations are in everyone’s interest, but it will take serious intent and deft maneuvering from America to get there. Is the administration up to it?

March 15, 2023 | Waller R. Newell, Clifford D. May

The Axis of Tyrannies

It will present an enormous challenge to free nations

February 15, 2023 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Arsenal

Assessing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program

December 11, 2022 | Waller R. Newell |

Will the Republican’s Tilt Toward Isolationism End?

Asked “which is the more hawkish party,” anyone remembering the presidencies of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George Bush would immediately answer “the Republicans.”...

December 5, 2022 | Shany Mor, Einat Wilf

Will Bibi Make the Left’s Nightmares Come True? It’s Never Happened Before

Translated from Hebrew   ...

July 28, 2022 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

Tehran, the Day After

What might happen in Iran if America or Israel bombed the nuclear sites?

July 2, 2022 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Lebanon, America, and the Courage of Fouad Ajami

For his courage to think independently, and for his honesty in tackling Arab failure, Ajami became the guiding light for many Arab thinkers after him.

June 28, 2022 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Israeli Moment

If anyone is going to derail the Islamic Republic’s regional ambitions, Israel is really the only local counterweight that counts.

June 2, 2022 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Iraq Attacks Israel; What Should Happen Next?

On May 26, Iraq approved a poorly thought out authoritarian law; its implications will hurt Iraqis in the diaspora, Iraqis in Iraq, and the Iraqi economy. The law criminalizes non-existent ties with Israel,...

June 1, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Hamas as Tehran’s Agent

Since the late 1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been plying the Hamas terrorist group with cash and weapons while also teaching it how to be self-sufficient. With hundreds of millions of dollars...

May 25, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

NATO’s problem child

Turkey threatens to blackball Sweden and Finland

April 20, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The absence of an off-ramp

A diplomatic end to Putin’s war is becoming unlikely