Tag: Middle East

Damage from the Israeli bombardment is seen at the U.N. school in Maghazi refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.

Beltway Confidential

Why a new Israeli conflict with Hamas will be short, and fought on Israeli terms

Tom Rogan · November 12, 2018 9:47 pm

In this Sunday, April 29, 2018 file photo released by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, is greeted by Saudi King Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Energy and Environment

Saudi nuclear deal nears death after Khashoggi murder

John Siciliano · November 10, 2018 5:00 am

Hezbollah supporters wave Hezbollah and Palestinian flags during a demonstration against the Israeli offensive in Gaza near UN headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, on Saturday, November 17, 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Beltway Confidential

The untold race in the Middle East to be the diplomatic peacemaker

Michael Rubin · November 9, 2018 2:41 pm

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi sits during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Egypt has an excellent new pledge to deter Iran

Tom Rogan · November 7, 2018 7:20 pm

People hold signs at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia during protest about the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, in Washington. David Barrows, right, with Code Pink, wears a mask of Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Beltway Confidential

What will the US do about Khashoggi? Yemen? The answer might be in Iran sanctions

Erin Dunne · November 6, 2018 2:50 am

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a session of parliament to debate his proposed tourism and education ministers, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. Rouhani said European nations are failing to implement their commitments following the U.S. pullout from the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.

Beltway Confidential

Trump must get ready for the Iranian storm

Tom Rogan · November 5, 2018 10:10 pm

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to speak to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H.

Beltway Confidential

Why wait? Jim Mattis can pull the US out of Yemen now, not in 30 days

Daniel DePetris · November 2, 2018 5:19 pm

Some ‘Modernizer’

Reuel Marc Gerecht · November 2, 2018 7:23 am

A Syrian woman carries a child in a squalid camp for internally displaced people in al-Bab, northern Syria, Tuesday, May 29, 2018.

ISIS women: Victims, criminals, or both?

Anne Speckhard and Ardian Shajkovci · November 2, 2018 4:00 am

Jair Bolsonaro, presidential candidate with the Social Liberal Party, waves after voting in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro vows to move Israel embassy to Jerusalem

Anna Giaritelli · November 1, 2018 10:14 pm

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, left, drinks water as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, makes his statement after the so called "2+2" meeting in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. Pompeo and Mattis held long-delayed talks Thursday with top Indian officials, looking to shore up the alliance with one of Washington's top regional partners.

Beltway Confidential

Jim Mattis and Mike Pompeo must back up calls for peace in Yemen with more than words

Erin Dunne · October 31, 2018 6:49 pm

A small group of Honduran migrants trying to reach the U.S. border walk along train tracks in Trancas Viejas, Veracruz state, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. As a caravan of thousands of Central Americans renewed their slow march toward the U.S. on Wednesday, others chose to travel in smaller groups following routes well-worn by decades of migrants fleeing poverty and violence.

Beltway Confidential

The caravan’s advocates are destroying immigration and humanitarian law

Michael Rubin · October 25, 2018 1:34 pm