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…