On August 13, Iraqi militia leader Hamid al-Yasiri delivered an unprecedented public denunciation of Iran-backed armed groups oper ...
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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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On August 4, personnel from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) boarded the Emirati bitumen tanker Asphalt Princess in ...
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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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war,” the late French prime minister Georges Clemenceau famously remarked, “is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. ...
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On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda carried out the deadliest foreign terrorist attack the United States had ever experienced. To Osam ...
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Last week, the Turkish news site Ahval reported that the Iraqi government invited Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to a reg ...
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