Itamar Rabinovich

Smoke rises in the sky following clashes in Tripoli, Libya, August 27, 2022. REUTERS/Hazem Ahmed

Around the halls: Brookings experts on Biden’s performance in the Middle East

File photo dated March 25, 2003 of United States President George W. Bush (R) speaks next to US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (C) and US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz (L) during a visit at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Donald Rumsfeld, the acerbic architect of the Iraq war and a master Washington power player who served as US secretary of defense for two presidents, has died at the age of 88. Photo by Alex Wong/Pool via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Reflections on the long-term repercussions of September 11 for US policy in the Middle East

Itamar Rabinovich

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

A member of Taliban (C) stands outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 16, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

Around the halls: The Taliban retakes Afghanistan

Madiha Afzal, Ranj Alaaldin, Daniel L. Byman, Giovanna De Maio, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Marvin Kalb, Suzanne Maloney, Patrick W. Quirk, Itamar Rabinovich, Douglas A. Rediker, Bruce Riedel, Federica Saini Fasanotti, Constanze Stelzenmüller, and Shibley Telhami

Monday, August 16, 2021

Fighter jets fly over Iranian soldiers parading during the Zolfaghar-2 war games near the Iran-Afghan border on November 2. The war games involved 200,000 army troops, 70,000 Revolutionary Guards, armoured and artillery units as well as commando forces and naval units, supported by the air force and the army air corps in the border areas covering 50,000 sq km (19,300 sq miles).JDP - RP1DRIGJPSAA

How Iran’s regional ambitions have developed since 1979

Itamar Rabinovich

Thursday, January 24, 2019

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (L) waves with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (R) and U.S. President Bill Clinton after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord, at the White House in Washington September 13, 1993. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1E99E00KE01

The Oslo Accords at 25: The Syria track that could have been

Itamar Rabinovich

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighters walk as the sun sets in Eastern Afrin countryside, Syria, February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi - RC1E12B5E3F0

The struggle for Syria, Chapter Two

Itamar Rabinovich

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

A woman walks past damaged buildings in the rebel-held city of Inkhil, west of Deraa, Syria, September 7, 2017. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir - RC13F5560C30

The Syrian crisis: A reckoning and a road map

Itamar Rabinovich

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

A convoy of Israeli tanks rolls through the Sinai peninsula during the 1967 Middle East War, widely known as the Six Day War, in this picture released on June 4, 2007 by Israel's Defence Ministry. Forty years ago this week, Israel swept to victory in six days in a war with Egypt, Syria and Jordan, capturing the Sinai peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and West Bank, including Arab East Jerusalem. REUTERS/Israeli Defence Ministry/Handout BLACK AND WHITE ONLY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. - RTR1QFP7

Syria and the Six-Day War: A 50-years perspective

Itamar Rabinovich

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

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Is Iran pursuing its own version of Sykes-Picot in the Middle East?

Itamar Rabinovich

Thursday, May 11, 2017

U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) conducts strike operations while in the Mediterranean Sea which U.S. Defense Department said was a part of cruise missile strike against Syria on April 7, 2017. Ford Williams/Courtesy U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX34HGZ

After the airstrike, what Washington should do next in Syria

Itamar Rabinovich

Monday, April 17, 2017