Shivane Anand is a research associate in The Washington Institute's Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East. The visit will probably confirm the ...

With Assad-era laws increasingly triggered by private complaints and enforced unevenly, U.S. officials can no longer relegate these issues to secondary tracks or assume that core administration ...

If done astutely, absorbing SDF personnel into the central government can preserve years of U.S. relationship-building and institutional knowledge while giving Washington a unique channel to build ...

Henry Tugendhat is a Senior Fellow in the Institute's Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great-Power Competition and the Middle East. U.S. officials have demurred when asked about ...

Given their unique cultural concepts and major economic and political clout, the Gulf states are poised to play an even more significant role in future peace and security initiatives. The increasing ...