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Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gesture during a rally commemorating the annual Hezbollah Martyrs' Day in Nabatieh, Lebanon, November 11, 2021. REUTERS/Aziz Taher

Is Hezbollah overplaying its hand inside Lebanon?

Stephanie T. Williams

Friday, November 19, 2021

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

U.S. President Joe Biden greets 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

What will US combat forces withdrawal mean for Iraq?

Ranj Alaaldin and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, July 29, 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

President Jimmy Carter and the Middle East: Reexamining his legacy forty years later

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

FBI Director Louis Freeh has had the Khobar Towers bombing case reassignedto federal prosecutors in Virginia, over strong objections from U.S.Attorney Wilma Lewis, according to reports in both U.S. News and WorldReport, and Time magazine published on March 23, 2001. U.S. News said Freehtook the unusual step of reassigning the case because he had grownfrustrated by missteps in the investigation of the bombing of the U.S.military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemembers. The complex is shown after the June, 1996 attack. REUTERS/Dept.RC/SV

The deadly legacy of Khobar Towers

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, June 10, 2021

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.A security official stands in front of the Bushehr nuclear reactor, 1,200 km (746 miles) south of Tehran, August 21, 2010. Iran began fuelling its first nuclear power plant on Saturday, a potent symbol of its growing regional sway and rejection of international sanctions designed to prevent it building a nuclear bomb. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS ENERGY)

From the Iran nuclear deal to a Middle East Zone?

Thursday, May 27, 2021

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From the Iran nuclear deal to a Middle East Zone? Lessons from the JCPOA for an ME WMDFZ

Contributions by Robert Einhorn

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

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US-China Nuclear Relations: The Impact of Strategic Triangles

Contributions by Robert Einhorn

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

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reviews Iran's new nuclear achievements during Iran's National Nuclear Energy Day in Tehran, Iran April 10, 2021. Iranian Presidency Office/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Will Natanz attack, uranium enrichment derail nuclear diplomacy with Iran?

Robert Einhorn and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, April 14, 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 conversation with HASC Chairman Adam Smith

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

A vehicle blocks a road during a protest against the fall in Lebanese pound currency and mounting economic hardships in Khaldeh, Lebanon March 8, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

The risk of accidental war

Jeffrey Feltman and Adam Cooper

The Mediator's Studio

Thursday, March 4, 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

The Middle East and the new US administration

9:00 AM - Friday Feb 26, 2021 1:00 PM EST