former assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs diagnoses the country's incapacitated institutions and prescribes rem ...
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President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan is a catastrophic moral and strategic mistake that will define his legacy. It wi ...
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The question is whether and how these historical echoes will affect decisionmaking in Russia, Iran, China, Pakistan, and India. Wh ...
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Since the fall of Kabul—and well beforehand—Iranian officials have signaled how they might use a Taliban victory to further their ...
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the fall of Kabul raises a number of questions about the future of the jihadist movement, from the plans being pondered by global ...
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On August 4, personnel from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) boarded the Emirati bitumen tanker Asphalt Princess in ...
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Last week, long-simmering tensions between the Syrian regime and opposition factions boiled over in Deraa al-Balad, the southern d ...
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Despite the necessity of focusing on domestic affairs first and great-power relations second, the Biden administration has so far ...
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In 2008, I interviewed the United Kingdom’s then outgoing military commander in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, in a d ...
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The Islamic Republic of Iran is a state divided against itself. Since its inception in 1979, it has been defined by tension betwee ...
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