The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

September 27, 2023 | Jonathan Schanzer |

No Incentives for Terrorism: U.S. Implementation of the Taylor Force Act and Efforts to Stop ‘Pay to Slay’

September 21, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Treasury sanctions Hezbollah’s network in Colombia, but what took so long?

The Biden administration wants to create the impression it is finally getting tough on Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group and Iranian proxy. The Treasury Department’s sanctions last...

April 17, 2023 | Jacob Nagel, Jonathan Schanzer

Halevi’s Horizon: What Awaits the New Israeli Defense Chief of Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi leads the IDF in a time of complex security challenges, including threats posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran

March 1, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Turkey After Erdogan

February 15, 2023 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Arsenal

Assessing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program

January 10, 2023 | Mark Dubowitz, Orde Kittrie

Strategy for a New Comprehensive U.S. Policy on Iran

December 19, 2022 | Joe Truzman |

UNIFIL Peacekeepers Come Under Fire in Southern Lebanon, Hezbollah Denies Involvement

On Dec. 14, a convoy of Irish United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNFIL) peacekeepers belonging to the 121st Infantry Battalion came under fire while traveling in the southern Lebanon village of...

December 8, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Neither Here Nor There

Jordan and the Abraham Accords

September 12, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer, Mark Dubowitz

PGMs: Iran’s Precision-Guided Munitions Project in the Shadow of a Nuclear Deal

January 3, 2022 | Andrew J. Tabler, Matthew Zweig

Solving Syria’s Crisis Starts with Sanctioning Iranian Oil

Rather than rehabilitating the Assad regime through willful negligence in its sanctions policy, the administration should escalate economic pressure on the Assad regime’s Iranian enablers to regain a measure of leverage at the negotiating table.

December 3, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir, Sinan Ciddi, John Hardie

Collusion or Collision?

Turkey-Russia Relations Under Erdogan and Putin

June 30, 2021 | Tony Badran |

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon

June 1, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

A formula for strife

Download full article here Excerpt After 11 days of conflict, on May 20, Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire agreement brokered by Egypt. Thus ended the fifth round of hostilities between them since...

April 29, 2021 | Tzvi Kahn |

Biden and Obama Previously Defended Non-Nuclear Sanctions on Iran

March 30, 2021 | Dennis Ross, Shany Mor

Securing Peace in the Middle East After Trump

Dennis Ross Shany and I both agree that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was existential insofar as it embodied two national movements competing for the same space. Oslo was supposed to turn an existential...

March 22, 2021 | Dennis Ross, Shany Mor

Securing Peace in the Middle East After Trump

Dennis Ross When it comes to the Abraham Accords, the Trump Administration deserves the credit for taking advantage of an opportunity, one it responded to but did not initiate. It was the UAE that came...

January 28, 2021 | Brig. Gen. Assaf Orion (Res.), RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Moving Israel to CENTCOM: Another Step Into the Light

The new command shift, which is rooted in years of growing collaboration away from the limelight, promises to facilitate bilateral and regional security cooperation and burden sharing, while the IDF-EUCOM-CENTCOM...

January 27, 2021 | Dennis Ross, Juan C. Zarate

Are there pieces of Trump’s foreign policy worth keeping?

The shock of the Jan. 6 mob assault on the Congress and the stain on the image of American democracy will not wear off anytime soon. This moment has amplified the impulse to reject the vestiges of Trump...

December 15, 2020 | David Adesnik, Lt. Col. Robert L. Green

America’s Small but Effective Presence in Syria

December 15, 2020 | Bradley Bowman, Maj. Amoreena York

Avoiding a Self-Inflicted Wound in the Sinai