President Trump & the Iran Nuclear Deal – A European Perspective
President Donald Trump’s recent decision not to re-certify Iran’s compliance with the JCPOA has stimulated much debate on both sides of the Atlantic. But whilst […] More
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D.C. Heavyweights Sound Off on Gulf Crisis
Qatar, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood were the targets of harsh criticism at a conference on Countering Violent Extremism hosted by the Hudson Institute in […] More
Iraq Ambassador Accuses Kurds of Kirkuk ‘Disinformation’ Campaign
Iraq’s top diplomat in Washington, D.C., cried foul Friday over Kurdish government charges that Iran backed Iraq’s campaign to retake Kirkuk. “The KRG has been […] More
Iran Deal Still Works Despite Iran’s Aggression
Last week, President Donald Trump announced he would not certify Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal and would terminate the agreement entirely if its “many […] More
Confronting Iran Doesn’t Have to Mean Scrapping Nuclear Deal
President Donald Trump’s non-certification of Iranian compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal has shaken the diplomatic firmament, infuriated the deal’s […] More
Staying Together is Hard — But Splitting is Harder
This September, voters in the territories controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of northern Iraq voted overwhelmingly to declare independence from the central government […] More
Two Rivers, Three Countries? Ethnography and Destiny in Iraq
The surprise advance of Iraqi troops into the Kurdish-held city of Kirkuk on Monday raises a spectre that has haunted Iraq since the 2003 U.S. […] More
On Iran Deal, Trump Distances Himself from Obama
On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would not re-certify Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal signed in 2015, calling it “one of the […] More
Trump Stops Short of Pulling Out of Iran Deal
President Donald Trump on Friday announced he would not certify Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal and vowed to terminate the agreement if its “many […] More
Decertifying Iran ‘Hands Tool to Iran Hardliners’
President Trump announced on Friday that he will not certify Iran’s compliance to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal. “We will not […] More
U.S. Faces Decision Point in Race for Syria’s East
Turkey’s announcement of what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called “a serious operation in Idlib” last Saturday has injected uncertainty into the Syrian civil war, […] More
Tougher Line on Iran Could ‘Fatally Undermine’ Fight Against ISIS
President Donald Trump’s threatened de-certification of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement is sure to damage not just the deal itself, but the ultimate credibility of […] More
Could Trump’s Hardline on Iran Do More Harm than Good?
The White House is expected to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group as part of the White House’s tough new tact on Tehran, according […] More
Hezbollah Calls the Shots in Iran’s Syria Policy
President Donald Trump is reportedly about to extend a terrorism designation to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in its entirety. The IRGC is both […] More
White House Seeks Leverage in Decertification of Iran Deal
President Donald Trump’s much-anticipated decertification of the Iran nuclear deal would hand the problem off to Congress, setting off a 60-day countdown for lawmakers to […] More
Al Qaeda, ISIS are ‘Biggest Winners’ in Saudi Campaign
As war in Yemen drags on, the people of Yemen are facing severe humanitarian circumstances, with many starving, succumbing to disease, or unable to receive […] More
War, Plague and Famine Ride Over Yemen
Billed the “forgotten child” of the Middle East, Yemen is ensnared in a three-year old civil war with no end in sight. Despite haphazard international […] More
Peace Remains Distant Prospect as Civilians Suffer
Civil war in Yemen has dragged on for approximately three years with no end in sight. Forces loyal to Yemeni president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi and […] More