Two former senior U.S. officials look back at what the ceasefire has produced—and failed to produce—in its first year of implementation, focusing on the underused leverage provided by the July 30 “roadmap” agreement with Hamas. This essay serves as an introduction to a special Washington Institute series analyzing the risks …

Despite a new textbook, an influx of Russian teachers and managers, and an end to the teaching of Ukrainian, the Kremlin is unlikely to have “reprogrammed” locals. In the four-and-a-half years it has controlled southeastern Ukraine, Moscow has established a new education system. Those in charge seek to ensure this …

Damascus overthrew a cell that it said belonged to the Lebanese Hezbollah in southern Syria, specifically in the Yarmouk Basin, a strategic triangle adjacent to the Israeli presence, which is constantly witnessing an Israeli incursion, accompanied by repeated arrest campaigns against the people of the region, since the first moments …

Yemeni government forces announced the control of “Bab al-Mandab” and the airport “Dhu Bab” in western Taiz province, after carrying out a military detour operation on the positions of the “Ansar Allah” (Houthi) group supported by Iran. The Yemeni government’s Saba news agency reported today, Monday, October 5, quoting the …

The problem with American peacemaking is no longer simply that Washington cannot stop today’s wars; it is that the power expected to end them is increasingly a participant in them. From Mediator to ParticipantDonald Trump arrived at the UN General Assembly with two unresolved wars dominating his agenda. He is …

Under the conditions of power monopoly in Afghanistan, the proposal of ideas such as ‘Southern Turkestan’ can become a platform for foreign intervention, ethnic polarization, and further disintegration of national cohesion. This project could also serve as a tool for future pressure on Iran, Russia, and China. IntroductionThe introduction of …

Au cours des dernières semaines, j’ai remarqué quelque chose d’intéressant dans la presse israélienne. Les responsables israéliens de la sécurité affirment qu’Ahmed al-Sharaa, ou Abu Mohammad al-Jolani comme la plupart d’entre nous le connaissaient depuis de nombreuses années, reconstruit l’armée syrienne et utilise les ressources de l’État pour créer une …

It’s March 4 in Baghdad. The operations room at the command headquarters of the Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) is bustling. Faces are tired and tense, eyes darting between screens connected to thermal cameras deployed across operational sectors and tablets displaying military maps. It is 9:00pm, and all indications suggest …

Israeli forces have attempted to assassinate a senior Hamas leader Ali al-Amoudi in Gaza, Israeli media reported on Saturday. The attacks took place on Friday evening, when Israeli airstrikes killed five Palestinians, including four women and a child, though al-Amoudi’s fate remains unclear. Hamas has not issued a statement acknowledging …

The Special Court verdict has exposed the imbalance between the justice demanded of Kosovo and Serbia’s refusal to confront its own wartime crimes. On the day Hashim Thaçi was convicted, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić went before the cameras to attack reactions from Prishtina and Tirana. “And here I thought they …