If Magyar wins and Orban allows the results to stand, the new government can set Hungary on a path back toward democracy. But the regime might be prepared to go to great lengths to secure victory, ...

Until the cease-fire announced on April 7, the United States largely confined its operations against Iran to the sky and the sea. President Donald Trump appears to have understood that a large-scale ...

The first hours of Operation Epic Fury—the joint U.S.-Israeli military offensive against Iran, launched on February 28—demonstrated the extraordinary reach of modern precision warfare. U.S. and ...

In late March, both Israel and Iran attacked gas fields in the Persian Gulf, the most dramatic escalation yet in the Iran war. By striking upstream energy infrastructure, the belligerents have ensured ...

But it has done little to resolve the strategic incoherence at the heart of the U.S.-Israeli campaign that neither government has been willing to acknowledge publicly: the two partners have been ...

Three years into the country’s catastrophic civil war, Sudan’s patchwork of battlefields has hardened into something that resembles a de facto partition. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s Sudanese ...

Polling by Arab Barometer, a survey project that we co-lead with others, conducted in the months after October 7 showed a sea change in public opinion. As ordinary people in the region witnessed ...

An individual could potentially use an AI model or a combination of models to engineer a dangerous pathogen, launch autonomous cyberattacks on power grids or hospital networks, or create and ...

The U.S.-led talks to end the war in Ukraine have been placed on hold. The Trump administration’s focus on Iran might be the proximate reason, but it is not the underlying cause. In truth, the ...

Within days of the initial U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran on February 28, 2026, the world was plunged into an energy crisis. Tehran’s near shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20 ...

There are sound reasons for optimism that European governments can reduce their military reliance: defense spending is rising, particularly in countries in northern and eastern Europe, and Europe is ...