Policy Analysis

Experts discuss how the two allies can work more closely on everything from artificial intelligence to missile defense, ideally with help from emerging Arab partners.

Italian-Egyptian relations are once again at a low point, this time for the detention of Egyptian citizen Patrick Zaki—a student of at an Italian university—and the question of what role foreign powers in general, and Italy in particular, can play in stopping human rights abuses in Egypt.

علاقه به یک رئیس‌جمهور مقتدر نظامی در بخش‌هایی غیرمنتظره رو به افزایش است، اما برآمدن چنان کسی، به احتمال زیاد، به تحکیم بیشتر قدرت خامنه‌ای می‌انجامد به جای آن‌که موجب اصلاحات چشمگیر در نظام شود.

این سفر بازتابی از راهبرد پکن بود که قصد دارد ابتکاراتی را به هم گره بزند که به صورت منفرد ظاهرا بی‌اهمیت هستند، اما به صورت جمعی تهدیدی برای تضعیف منافع آمریکا و منطقه خواهد بود.

The diverse coalition may be able to form a viable government, but it will need to navigate carefully in light of internal political differences and Netanyahu’s presence in the opposition as a potential spoiler.

Kawader Hezbollah al-Qudama, a new electoral partner to former premier Nouri al-Maliki, is not the same as Kataib Hezbollah. It contains members of the older Islamic Resistance cells that fought Saddam and then the U.S.-led coalition after 2003. Maliki is gathering marginal resistance figures to him and Kataib Hezbollah has still not openly shown its hand in parliamentary politics.

Ahd Allah Islamic Movement is a social and cultural movement built around Kataib Hezbollah ideologue Seyyed Hashem al-Haidari.

By dismissing the Zarif tape and calling for further securitization of government decisionmaking, the officials truly in charge of Iranian foreign policy are previewing what negotiators and neighbors can expect from Tehran for the foreseeable future.

Parochial interests and war fatigue are driving many member states to support premature elections and normalization with Damascus, but this approach will only consolidate Assad’s control and help him evade accountability for war crimes.

سکوت آشکار واشنگتن در مورد خرابکاری در تاسیسات اتمی نطنز ایران، بدون شک از این واقعیت نشات می‌گیرد که اسرائیل از این طریق زمان بیشتری برای مذاکرات هسته‌ای خریده است.

Iran's post-Natanz face-saving effort saw the Iraqi muqawama falsely claim retaliation attacks against Israeli and U.S. targets in Iraq, underlining a case of centralized Iranian direction of muqawama information operations, and coordination of Iraqi muqawama actions with broader kinetic operations by Iran's Axis of Resistance.

Islamist influences, independent candidate lists, and low participation rates all threaten the success of Algeria's upcoming legislative elections.

Benefitting from offshore natural gas reserves should be a win-win situation, but in this case the players may turn it into a zero-sum game.

If only to avoid far worse outcomes, Washington should reject Assad’s bogus “reelection” and keep supporting Israeli strikes, the SDF’s viability, and refugee aid.

Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada is a splinter of Kataib Hezbollah that works directly with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and which has a transnational focus on the Iran-backed Axis of Resistance's shared regional agenda.

وزیر خارجه ایران حرف‌های زیادی درباره دخالت سیاسی شاخه قدس سپاه در داخل کشور و رابطه نزدیک آن با مسکو مطرح ساخت و رژیم هیچ بخشی از سخنان او را رد نکرده است.

گرچه هر دو طرف سعی کرده‌اند حملات دریایی خود را در مقابله-به-مثل تحت کنترل داشته باشند، این حملات با ریسک قابل ‌توجهِ اشتباه محاسبه و افزایش تنش همراه است که می‌تواند کشتیرانی بین‌المللی را به خطر بیندازد.

Imam Hussein Scouts Association is Kataib Hezbollah’s youth organization and an affiliate of Lebanese Hezbollah's Kashaf al-Imam Mahdi youth movement.

Russian-Turkish compromise in Syria puts Syrian Kurds in a dangerous position.

The Sharia Youth Gathering is an umbrella movement of social service, cultural, sports, and scouting organizations that is effectively controlled by Kataib Hezbollah (KH) through a cadre of KH-linked commanders.