Lina Khatib

On 24 August, Washington launched Operation Economic Outcast, an additional set of measures aiming to further suffocate Iran’s economy. At the time,…

The 9/11 attacks of 2001 ushered in a security paradigm centred on identifying and defeating a particular enemy: transnational terrorism. Twenty-five…

Maritime security in the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandab Strait, and the Strait of Hormuz is often treated as a regional problem whose principal stakeholders…

The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) have begun implementing a graduated handover of control from Israeli troops in southern Lebanon by taking command in…

Hezbollah can lose fighters, commanders, territory and access and still survive if its money survives. That is the uncomfortable lesson Europe should…

Two days into the US-Israeli war on Iran, Tehran adopted a strategy of widening the geographical scope of its retaliation to maximise its chances of…

Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel in aid of Iran after the launch of the US-Israeli Operation Epic Fury are the final nail in the coffin for the group…

The Middle East is going through a critical period of social and cultural transformation that will shape the region’s future. The transformations…

The fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has brought hope of widening stabilisation in the Middle East. For more than a decade, the war in…

Warring parties in the Middle East have been using the region’s recent violent convulsions to test and upgrade weapons, improve the skills of their…