Qatar is positioning itself to be a central player in Gaza’s high-stakes future. Yet the United States granting Doha such a role would be deeply unwise. Qatar’s century-long evolution from irrelevant backwater to hyper-wealthy energy exporter has given it the resources…
Since Israel and Hamas agreed to the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in October 2025, Hamas terrorists have frequently violated the terms of the agreement. By continuing to hold hostage bodies captive, crossing the Israeli-controlled Yellow Line in the Gaza Strip, and ambushing…
The U.S. proposal to establish a military presence at an airbase near Damascus is a welcome sign of deepening cooperation with Syria’s new government, but it may be insufficient to secure regional U.S. interests. A Damascus presence should complement—not replace—the U.S. partnership…
A team of former senior United States military commanders released in recent days a comprehensive assessment of the 12-day war (June 13 – 25) fought between Israel and Iran, revealing new details about the scope, speed and strategic impact of…
To build on its successful attacks on Iran in June, Israel must think, as it did in Syria, in terms of a “campaign between the wars” that includes “preemptive military force alongside diplomatic, intelligence and economic measures,” and it and…
Bad actors stick together. Few relationships prove that more clearly than Iran and Venezuela’s. The regimes’ close ties are on full display with Iran’s foreign ministry on November 15, threatening the United States with “dangerous consequences” over the US military buildup near…
A series of recent events and revelations has raised concerns that Iran could be working to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program damaged during the 12-day war with Israel and the U.S., and that Russia could be playing a role in…
Israel had spent a decade trying to kill Haytham Ali Tabatabai when it found the top Hezbollah military commander over the weekend in an apartment in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The veteran militant—born to a Lebanese mother and Iranian…
China’s aggressive campaign to steal American military technology is emerging as a central concern in the debate over whether the United States should sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, according to experts and retired senior military commanders. (Ret.) Gen.…
Israel achieved extraordinary successes in its strikes on Iran in the 12-day war in June. This was hammered home in a new report at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). The report is titled “Operation Rising Lion:…