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China faces pressure to move beyond economic diplomacy and become Iran’s key security partner as regional instability grows.
The past two months have witnessed a remarkable spike in warfare involving nuclear powers. From May 7 to May 10, India and ...
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have emerged as central components in the Trump administration’s AI strategy. But interdependence ...
An Abraham Accords-centric approach tailors the Cold War-era “containment” strategy that George F. Kennan formulated to the Middle East, with Iran standing in for the Soviet Union.
A video clip circulating on social media in recent months shows Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Shara, astride a handsome ...
Arab Gulf states are moving quickly to entrench themselves in Syria’s post-Assad future, launching a surge of diplomatic, ...
Last June’s Israel-Iran conflict became a revealing stress test for Beijing’s Middle East strategy, its role in global ...
Israel’s surprise attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 13 launched a 12-day war in which Israeli jets pounded Tehran ...
An ongoing attack on a cargo vessel in the Red Sea has killed three people, an EU maritime force said Tuesday, after ...
In game theory, there is a well-known strategy called the "ticking time bomb": a threat of destructive action against an adversary that may also harm the threatening player themselves ...
"The Iranian strike on the American base in Qatar demonstrated how beholden the Gulf Arabs are to the United States." ...