Why US military superiority may not defeat Iran: martyrdom, sacred time and strategic culture could strengthen Tehran’s resolve.
Iran escalates attacks on Kurdish opposition groups in Iraqi Kurdistan, pressuring Baghdad as regional security concerns and tensions intensify.
The Israel-Lebanon Framework Agreement shifts state responsibility to compliance with obligations concerning non-state armed actors.
Israel and Turkey are entering a new era of strategic rivalry, where diplomacy, defence, and Mediterranean alliances replace direct conflict.
The Iran case reveals how repeated threats, policy reversals and ineffective coercion can weaken great-power credibility and undermine deterrence.
A new U.S.–Iran framework links investment, sanctions relief and security. Can economic integration succeed where pressure and war failed?
Israel and Turkey are entering a new era of strategic rivalry, where diplomacy, defence, and Mediterranean alliances replace direct conflict.
Israel’s evolving nuclear posture, deterrence strategy, and the risks of escalation in an increasingly uncertain Middle East.
Iran’s future depends on a shift from confrontation to prosperity through diplomacy, economic reform, regional coexistence and credible security guarantees now.
For the first time in almost six decades, intellectuals are engaged in an open conversation about their state, society, and shared future in Syria.
Almond teaches us to appreciate that the political interests of individuals are too complex to fit into Huntington or Said’s grand theories.
An interview with Joost Hiltermann on The Resurrected, the Anfal genocide, Kurdish survivors, and fiction’s power to bear witness.
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