DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East from February 2021 to February 2024. The Iranian regime is on its back foot,

Trying to rebuild a war-ravaged country without humanitarian aid or sanction relief is like trying to get up with a boot on your neck.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reinforced U.S. military capability in the Middle East with more warplanes.

As Israel's ground offensive against Hezbollah ramped up, one disturbing pattern emerged: the presence of Russian-made weaponry inside southern Lebanon.

The militias that control the Druse religious minority’s heartland in southwestern Syria have resisted the new government’s attempts to bring all armed groups under its control.

As Iranian proxy forces in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria falter under various campaigns, Tehran is leaning on the Houthi terrorist group in Yemen to carry out offensive ambitions.

The strikes targeted what remained of Iranian strategic military capabilities” in Palmyra, the IDF said. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad's dictatorial regime in December, Israel has vowed to destroy weapons in Syria it fears could fall into the hands of jihadist terrorists who may seek to attack the Jewish state.

Khazali, leader of the Iran-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq (AAH), said on Monday that Israel’s main objective in allegedly reshaping the Middle East is to “support the separation” of Kurdish territories in Iraq and Syria.

The ramped-up U.S. attacks against the Yemen-based Houthis are possible in part due to an extensive military footprint in the Middle East. This includes a collection of permanent U.S. bases and

In an exclusive conversation with Firstpost, Seyed Emamian, Assistant Professor at Tehran Polytechnic University of Technology, and Co-founder of Governance and Policy Think Tank, elucidated the chall

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei Kani also took to X (formerly Twitter), describing Trump’s rhetoric as “a shocking affront to the very essence of international peace and security.”