The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.

The outbreak of direct hostilities between Israel and Iran in June represents one of the most significant geopolitical escalations in the Middle East in ...

Netanyahu has so far prolonged the war to remain in power. Now as another party leaves his coalition government, he is ...

For much of the modern era, the Middle East has occupied centre stage in global geopolitics, owing to its strategic geography ...

Iran’s accusations — that Azerbaijan has played a role in Israeli military operations — lack credible evidence and appear to ...

The MENA Energy Recap is a quarterly review of key energy developments that took place in the region from April through June of 2025 and what they signal in the months ahead. The Recap views these ...

The recent strikes could convince Iran and other states that building nuclear weapons is the only way to prevent such attacks ...

An Abraham Accords-centric approach tailors the Cold War-era “containment” strategy that George F. Kennan formulated to the Middle East, with Iran standing in for the Soviet Union.

Here is a summer reading roundup of 17 recent deep-think articles on a range of issues: the Gaza and Iran wars, US-Israel ...

Jerusalem should do whatever is needed to upgrade and enhance its nuclear deterrence posture in terms of doctrine and strategy.The post Iran’s nuclear proxies vs. Israel’s nuclear ambiguity appeared f ...

MOHAMMAD AYATOLLAHI TABAAR is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Associate Professor of International Affairs at Texas A ...

The West Asian strategic landscape, for generations, meant a balance-of-power game between affluent Gulf states, ...