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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

The flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) is pictured from the Dowqarun border crossing between Iran and Afghanistan, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran August 29, 2021. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Will the Taliban regime survive?

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden SPEAKS with Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Treat Iraq’s Iran-aligned militias like ISIS

Friday, July 30, 2021

Iraqi President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi meet with King Abdullah II of Jordan and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in Baghdad, Iraq, June 27, 2021. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily

Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan: A new partnership 30 years in the making?

Katherine Harvey and Bruce Riedel

Friday, July 2, 2021

US Secretary of Defence William Perry (R), accompanied by the Saudi Ambassador to the US., Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud (L), survey the bomb site outside the heavily damaged apartment at the Khobar Towers housing complex for U.S. military personnel in Dhahran June 29. Nineteen American servicemen were killed, and several hundred others were injured when a bomb exploded outside the bulding on June 25.

Remembering the Khobar Towers bombing

Monday, June 21, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin participate in an expanded bilateral meeting with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (not pictured) at the White House, in Washington, U.S. May 21, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

A grand strategy of resolute restraint

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Monday, May 24, 2021

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi- January 6, 2021. Iraqi Prime Minister Media Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Can Iraq play the role of a bridge in the Gulf?

Katherine Harvey and Bruce Riedel

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Women shop at Kourosh mall in western Tehran, Iran June 22, 2019. Picture taken June 22, 2019. Nazanin Tabatabaee/Wana News agency/via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

Iran’s middle class and the nuclear deal

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

Thursday, April 8, 2021

A member of Hashd al-Shaabi (paramilitary forces) holds a flag of Kataib Hezbollah militia group during a protest to condemn air strikes on their bases, in Baghdad, Iraq December 31, 2019. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily

Biden’s decision to strike Iran’s proxies is a good start

Friday, February 26, 2021

Female protesters holds placards and shout anti-government slogans as they took part in demonstration held in the capital Tunis, to call for the fall of the regime and to protest against the 'police violence' used during the latest nightly protests that broke in the country. They called for the release of the young protesters arrested by the police.Protesters chanted slogans, some of them had marked the uprising against the authoritarian regime of the former Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali during the Tunisian revolution. The demonstration took place under the slogan: "National march against the return of the police state and Ennahdha's militias". Tunisia, January 23, 2021.Des manifestantes tiennent des pancartes et chantent des slogans antigouvernement alors qu'elles participent a une manifestation qui s'est tenue dans la capitale Tunis, pour appeler a la chute du regime et pour protester contre la 'violence policiere' employee lors des dernieres protestations nocturnes qui ont eclate dans le pays. Ils ont demande la liberation des jeunes manifestants arretes par la police. Les manifestants ont scande des slogans dont certains avaient marque le soulevement populaire contre le regime autoritaire du dictateur et ancien president de la Tunisie, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali pendant la revolution tunisienne. La manifestation s'est deroulee sous le slogan : "Marche nationale contre le retour de l'Etat policier et des milices d'Ennahdha". Tunisie, le 23 janvier 2021.NO USE FRANCE

Biden says he will listen to experts. Here is what scholars of the Middle East think.

Marc Lynch and Shibley Telhami

Friday, February 19, 2021