On October 12, JINSA President and CEO Michael Makovsky, PhD, spoke to Fox News about the latest Houthi attacks, including the group’s October 10 drone and missile strike on Riyadh’s international airport. That attack was the deadliest on Saudi soil…
U.S. efforts to protect commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz have helped revive Persian Gulf oil exports and weaken Iran’s grip on the waterway, experts now acknowledge, but a debate is brewing over how durable those gains are, and…
Donald Trump’s reluctance to join Saudi Arabia’s conflict with Houthi rebels in Yemen has added new strain to Washington’s relationship with Riyadh, one already shaken by the US’s conduct of its war with Iran. … “MBS will not forget this,”…
Operation Epic Fury helped increase coordination between US partners and allies in the region in terms of air defenses and other types of security coordination. A recent report by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to the United States…
Qatar’s decades-long project of bankrolling pro-Islamist, anti-Israel and anti-Western causes could be the first casualty of the collapse of a critical energy income stream, a former U.S. national security adviser told JNS in recent days. … John Hannah, the Randi…
President Trump’s efforts to bring the Iran war to an end have faltered several times. … Jonathan Ruhe, a Jewish Institute for National Security of America’s (JINSA) fellow for American Strategy, argued the U.S. is going with the strategy to…
Any US sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia should account for Israel’s qualitative military edge and Riyadh’s place in a broader US-led regional security architecture before it moves forward, a Washington national-security expert told The Jerusalem Post following…
The State Department announced Thursday it has approved the possible sale of 48 F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia at an estimated cost of $24.3 billion. … “It’s a categorically bad idea, until and unless the U.S. and [Saudi Arabia]…
Saudi Arabia’s escalating conflict with the Houthis has revealed just how challenging it has become for the U.S. to deter the Iran‑backed terrorist group, former officials and regional experts say, as Houthi gains along the Red Sea raise alarms about…
For thousands of years, Tyre in southern Lebanon was one of the most important cities in the Phoenician world. Ships set sail from here to establish colonies across the Mediterranean, including the famous Carthage. Today, it is recognized as a…