Bruce Riedel

Flags of Saudi Arabia and Israel stand together in a kitchen staging area as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds meetings at the State Department in Washington, U.S., October 14, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Pool

How to understand Israel and Saudi Arabia’s secretive relationship

Monday, July 11, 2022

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar following a U.S.-India higher education dialogue at the Howard University Founders Library in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 12, 2022. Stefani Reynolds/Pool via REUTERS

Reflections on the “other crisis” of 1962: China and India

Orbis Summer 2022

A houthi supporter carries a weapon during a protest against USA and Saudi Arabia calling on the end of war in Yemen, a day after the truce was renewed in Sanaa.

Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia is a chance to end the war in Yemen

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

A general view of the White House, in Washington, D.C., on Monday April 11, 2022. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

JFK’s argument against imperialism

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Boys stand in line as they wait to receive meals from a charity kitchen during the holy month of Ramadan in Sanaa, Yemen April 18, 2022. Picture taken April 18, 2022. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

How to bolster Yemen and Saudi Arabia’s brittle peace deal

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Pakistan's prime minister-elect Shehbaz Sharif, speaks after winning a parliamentary vote to elect a new prime minister, at the national assembly, in Islamabad, Pakistan April 11, 2022. Pakistan National Assembly/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

President Biden, don’t pass up the opportunity for a reset with Shahbaz Sharif’s Pakistan

Bruce Riedel and Madiha Afzal

Friday, April 22, 2022

Jordan's King Abdullah joins new Prime Minister Badran and ministers for family photo after they swore the oath at Royal Palace in Amman. Jordan's King Abdullah (C) joins new Prime Minister Adnan Badran (3rd L) and ministers for a family photo after they swore the oath at the Royal Palace in Amman April 7, 2005. A new Jordanian cabinet composed of economic reformers close to King Abdullah took office on Thursday, charged by the monarch with speeding up liberal reforms in response to outside pressure for change. REUTERS/Yousef Allan

Jordan: How stable?

Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy Spring 2022

Smoke billows from a Saudi Aramco's petroleum storage facility after an attack in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia March 26, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

Yemen: Peace at last?

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

FILE PHOTO: A service member of pro-Russian troops walks near an apartment building destroyed in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine March 28, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko/File Photo

The Russia-Ukraine war may be bad news for nuclear nonproliferation

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Bruce Riedel

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Children sit in a vehicle parked outside a wholesale food shop in Sanaa, Yemen February 28, 2022. Picture taken February 28, 2022. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Yemen war turns seven

Thursday, March 24, 2022