The two-week truce announced on 7 April between Iran and the United States is being presented by some as a diplomatic ...

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Trump’s quagmire of his own making has tanked his domestic popularity—even among his support base. Instead of the “no endless ...

Trump’s active Middle East policy reflects a striking paradox. The United States is more visibly engaged in the region than ...

More than four weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the US military has successfully degraded Iran’s military capabilities but the limits of relying on air strikes to diminish the regime’s asymmetric ...

Alan Eyre is a Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow at the Middle East Institute and the founder and president of EyreAnalytics LLC. He retired from the US Foreign Service in September 2023 after a 40-year ...

With the US-Israeli air campaign intensifying, Iranian drone activity persisting across the Gulf, and the Trump ...

As the Trump administration continues to send mixed signals on the war — vacillating between escalatory military threats and allusions to diplomatic progress — global markets are reacting sharply, ...

Gulf energy systems face unprecedented strain as conflict disrupts transit, production, and investment flows. The economic ...

This special episode of Middle East Focus features a conversation from MEI’s Virtual Briefing Series. Host Alistair Taylor is joined by former National Security Council Senior Director Stephen ...