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Watch a webcast with the head of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate as she discusses how the organization is supporting global efforts to prevent and fight extremism amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Israeli and Palestinian experts and former negotiators explore the lack of clarity surrounding the next PA leader, including the potential effects succession might have on internal politics, annexation responses, U.S. policy, and more.

What factors will shape Israel's decisionmaking, and how would unilateral annexation affect its relations with the Palestinians, Arab neighbors, Europe, and U.S. legislators?

A State Department official explains the latest sanctions against entities that do business with Assad, while two experts assess the regime’s current status and its susceptibility to foreign pressure.

Polling shows that Palestinian public opinion is moving away from prior support for a compromise peace deal with Israel.

یکی از برجسته‌ترین تحلیلگران افکار عمومی عراق، همراه با دو کارشناس آمریکایی، درباره دستاوردهای گفت‌وگوهای آمریکا و عراق ‌بحث می‌کنند و به بررسی این نکته می‌پردازند که دو طرف برای پیشرفت اصلاحات واقعی چه می‌توانند بکنند؟

Qatar's break with Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbors remains unresolved, and rumors circulate of bids to replace Tamim bin Khalifa al-Thani, Qatar’s forty-year-old emir, with one of his historically marginalized rivals.

A former senior Lebanese official joins two experts to discuss the country's growing financial crisis and the deep institutional problems it must address in order to meet IMF reform requirements.

سه ناظر کهنه‌کار در حوزه نیروهای دریایی ایران و دکترین‌های دریایی آن، توانایی این کشور را برای زورآزمایی بالاتر از وزن خود در خلیج ‌فارس ارزیابی می‌کنند.

In 2008, the IRGC established a new branch that remains little known or studied today: the Provincial Guard. Operating in all of Iran's thirty-one provinces plus Tehran city, the IRGC-PG carries out the regime's revolutionary aims at the local level, inculcating conservative religious values, shaping educational curricula, and even sponsoring

Two experts assess the recent attack patterns and future prospects of a group that once seemed on the cusp of defeat in both countries.

Three experts examine one of the most sensitive problems facing Iraq's new prime minister: the future of militias that were mobilized to fight the Islamic State but have since balked at subsuming themselves to the government's authority.

For almost four decades, the Multinational Force & Observers has protected Israel-Egypt peace and anchored stability in the Sinai Peninsula, but a new Pentagon initiative could end the American contribution by late next year. Defense Secretary Mark Esper has indicated that all military endeavors must now fall within a National

Is it too late for the UN to counter the Assad regime and its allies on their abuses or to salvage cross-border mechanisms for humanitarian aid? Former UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura joined a virtual Policy Forum to probe the prospects.

In this illuminating Policy Note -- complete with detailed maps and satellite imagery -- Matthew Levitt and Samantha Stern tell the story of the Lebanese NGO Green Without Borders and explain why the mandate for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon must be reworked.

Three senior officials from Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia share a behind-the-scenes look at each country’s efforts to contain the pandemic.

A military expert offers historical context and present-day specifics on Iran's naval activities in the Gulf, using maps and other graphics to outline its capabilities and intentions during a perilously unstable time.

گفت‌وگوی کارشناسان را درباره اثرات فوری و دراز‌مدت واکنش جمهوری اسلامی ایران به همه‌گیری کرونا می‌توانید از طریق ویدئوی این صفحه تماشا کنید یا خلاصه‌ای از آن را در گزارش زیر بخوانید. سیاست‌‌های ایران چگونه تغییر می‌کند؟ ایرانِ تحت تحریم چه میزان کمک‌ می‌تواند دریافت کند؟ تاثیر افت اقتصاد جهانی بر زندگی روزمره در ایران چه خواهد بود؟

Given the military situation on the ground and the overriding interests of each party, the jihadist-run rebel pocket will likely be further reduced into a small, overpopulated border strip north of the M4 highway.

Although attack statistics have declined, the continued lack of stable governance in Diyala and Deir al-Zour shows that Washington and its partners have not absorbed the lessons provided by previous insurgencies.