In urban warfare, where combat unfolds amid a multitude of civilians and dense infrastructures, maintaining legitimacy is not merely a legal formality—it is a strategic imperative. According to U.S. military joint doctrine, legitimacy is one of the twelve principles of joint…

The Israeli Air Force on Thursday struck the headquarters of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in Damascus, Syria, amid ongoing instability in the country following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad by an al Qaeda-linked insurgency. After the fall of…

The Middle East’s myriad, complex, often overlapping conflicts continue to evolve—particularly in Turkey and Syria. The decades-long conflict between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group may finally have an end in sight. On February 27, Abdullah Ocalan,…

President Donald Trump’s decision to negotiate directly with Hamas for a cease-fire and hostage-release deal, to keep Israel in the dark about elements of the secret back-channel conversations, and then write a letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei…