Please note: Dr. Makovsky’s interview begins at the 59:10 mark. President Donald Trump has agreed to make major concessions to Iran as part of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) reached on June 14. Just under two months ago, President Trump…
Israel awoke to a frightening new reality on Thursday as it absorbed, with disbelief and largely in silence, the terms of President Trump’s preliminary agreement to end the war with Iran. … “It’s a bad agreement in which the Americans are paying…
Senators and Middle East policy experts expressed skepticism regarding President Donald Trump’s suggestion on Tuesday that Syria, rather than Israel, should handle the task of combating Hezbollah in Lebanon, following the president’s strident criticism of Israel’s attacks on the Iranian-backed terrorist…
Excerpt Below: In 38 days of war, beginning on Feb. 28, the United States and Israel decapitated Iran’s leadership, and pummeled its missile and drone arsenals, defense industry, air defenses and navy. The Iranian regime was on its back and…
Click here to read a transcript. The United States and Iran have reached a deal. Nearly 70 days after a temporary ceasefire halted full-scale war, President Donald Trump announced in a June 14 Truth Social post that “the Deal with…
Israel has a plan to insulate its security relationship from the United States as U.S. President Donald Trump, and the general public mood in the United States, turn against it. Israelis are acutely aware of their overwhelming dependence on Washington, their…
A Washington think tank is calling for closer scrutiny of ties between American universities and foreign countries — particularly Qatar — based on a detailed examination of hundreds of pages of documents made public by a congressional committee earlier this…
Israel waged the Six Day War in June 1967. The 12-Day War with Iran in June 2025. And now, in 2026, the 12-hour war. Again with Iran. Again in June. To help make sense of what happened, what the country experienced,…
Despite initially conflicting claims emerging from the White House and Iranian state media about the contents and timing of a memorandum of understanding between the parties, there were indications on Friday that the gaps between the two sides could be…
JINSA Generals & Admirals Program participant and Former CENTCOM Commander GEN (ret.) Joseph Votel joined NPR’s Morning Edition to assess whether the conflict has returned to full-scale war and what “negotiating with bombs” would actually require militarily. GEN (ret.) Votel…