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Israel Has Given Beirut an Ultimatum That It Will Carry Out a Broad Operation If the Lebanese Armed Forces Do Not Step up Their Efforts
It Is the Only Rational Posture for a Country That Has Been Fighting an Existential Ideological War with Hamas for Decades
The Implications for American Interests Are Concrete, Even If the Language of Policy Prefers Discretion
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security Has Added Nine Turkish Companies to Its Entity List
Quite Telling in This ‘Incident’ Is the Deafening Silence by Egypt’s Political Leaders, All the Way to President El-Sisi
The 12-Day War Transformed a 45-Year Proxy Struggle Into Direct Confrontation
Israel Stands at the Edge of Uneasy Quiet—a Nation Suspended Between Victory and Vigilance, Rebuilding its Institutions, Faith, and Purpose After the Long War that Refused to End.
The First Phase of the Ceasefire in Gaza Is Still in Effect, but It Remains So Only Because of a Concerted Diplomatic Effort from the United States
The New Government Is either Purposely Cynical or in Naive Denial About Its Treatment of Ethnic and Sectarian Minorities
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ Recent Video Defense of Tucker Carlson Is Deeply Troubling
Peace with Morocco Would Not Stabilize Algeria; It Would Expose It
The Attacks Briefly Disrupted Operations but Underscored a Worrying Expansion of Ideologically Driven Turkish Cyber-Activism Into Western Civilian Infrastructure
The Ceasefire in the Gaza Strip Has Been Fragile Since U.S. President Donald Trump Willed It Into Existence Earlier This Month
UNHCR Is Among the U.N.’s Most Irreplaceable and Cost-Effective Programs
The Path to Implementing the 20-Point Peace Plan Remains Strewn with Obstacles
To Root Disarmament in Precedent Undercuts the Efficacy of Hezbollah’s Legal Resistance, Both Inside Lebanon and on the World Stage
From Assad’s Palace Perched on Mount Mezzeh, He Could See East Ghouta, a Sprawling Suburb of Multistory Apartment Buildings, and a Slum Which More than a Million Sunni Arabs Called Home
The Trigger Was Familiar: Rumors Alleging a Romantic Liaison Between a Young Coptic Man and a Muslim Woman
In Sept. 2023, India, Saudi Arabia, the European Union, the United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States Signed a Memorandum of Understanding to Establish the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor
Iran and Its Allies Are on the Ropes, but the Sunni Alliance Led by Turkey and Qatar Is Ascendant
U.S. Special Envoy Calls for Lifting Syria Sanctions, but Concerns Grow over Ongoing Sectarian Violence and the Treatment of Minority Communities Under Al Sharaa
There Is a Broader Problem of Anti-Druze Sentiment, Espoused by Islamic State and Others, That Considers Druze to Be Legitimate Targets for Kidnapping and Killing
