The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) publish the Iran Update, which provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities that undermine regional stability and threaten US forces and interests. CTP-ISW publishes the Iran Update every weekday. Click here …

Iran is unlikely to accept zero uranium enrichment and full dismantlement of its nuclear program. Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi stated on April 16 that uranium enrichment is a “real and undeniable right” and “not subject to negotiation.”[i] Araghchi stated that “contradictory” US positions do not help the negotiations …

Note: The data cut-off for this product was 1000pm ET on April 14. ISW will cover subsequent reports in the April 21, 2025, Russian Force Generation and Technological Adaptations Update. ISW is launching a new product line — the Russian Force Generation and Technological Adaptations Update — to track Russian …

As Europe continues to grapple with questions of identity, integration, and multiculturalism, a familiar yet complex debate has resurfaced: Do Muslims fit in Europe? This question—recently explored in a provocative exchange between renowned anthropologist Professor Akbar S. Ahmed and physicist and public intellectual Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy—demands more than simplistic answers. …

For years, I’ve resisted deploying the word globalism with approbation because international cooperation is a good thing. Travel is glorious and so is the freedom to trade and migrate. How did the practice of freedom as it extends over national juridical lines come to be so widely loathed and disparaged? …

The nuclear negotiations with Iran today are different from those of 2015. The talks with the Obama administration were limited to the uranium enrichment reduction in return for removal of sanctions. Today, Palestine is on the table. This creates an opportunity for the Gulf states and Iran to join hands …

Introduction The Ferghana Valley has been the most restive area in Central Asia since the five Central Asian states became independent after the collapse of the Soviet Union in late 1991. Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan each have sections of the Ferghana Valley, a region approximately the size of the Central …

Le sage dirait que nous vivons une époque intéressante, une époque qui restera dans les livres d’histoire. Nous assistons certes à une transition hégémonique, au passage de l’unipolarité à la multipolarité, plus exactement au polycentrisme, mais cette transition produit une révolution géopolitique mondiale d’une ampleur supérieure à celle qui a …

«Loin de ne concerner que le peuple palestinien, l’avenir de notre monde se joue en partie importante en Palestine … (car) l’hégémonie occidentale est confrontée à une série de résistances qui menacent la poursuite de son pillage du monde sur lequel est bâti son modèle économique». ~ Saïd Bouamama Impressionnant …

Depuis des décennies, Washington assure la domination militaire d’Israël en affaiblissant systématiquement les armées arabes. Le Liban est l’exemple le plus récent et le plus frappant de cette doctrine en pratique. Les États-Unis ne se contentent pas de soutenir Israël, ils garantissent la suprématie de l’État d’occupation sur toute la …