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An Israeli Samson C-130J Super Hercules cargo plane flies over the Israeli coastal city of Netanya towards northern Israel, on August 25, 2024.

Back to base: calm restored as both Israel and Hezbollah claim 'victory'

Few want a major escalation but both sides feel they must respond to the other, creating a rolling boil conflict with heightened rhetoric that remains susceptible to temperature changes

Michael Horowitz 28 August 2024

The stakes are high as Israel and Iran go toe-to-toe throughout the region with a series of strikes and counter strikes. Will it be managed, or will it end dramatically?

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At a crossroads: the Middle East now has but two choices

The past ten months have upended policy trajectories relating to the Middle East. How the conflict unfolds in the coming weeks will have huge and unpredictable consequences for millions

Paul Salem 17 August 2024

An Israeli military convoy on the move inside the Gaza Strip on August 14, 2024.

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Is arms control experiencing a renaissance in the Middle East?

Not the arms control we have come to know from ratification signings, but a different, less formal, but perhaps no less effective form. Look closely, and you will see it is already happening

Bilal Saab 16 August 2024

Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps conduct a military drill with ballistic missiles and unmanned air vehicles at Great Salt Desert, in the middle of the Iranian Plateau, on January 15, 2021 in Iran. (Getty)

A Deterrent Force Still Absent

The standoff between the United States and Iran has become a routine one. However, the present American appeasement of the rulers of Tehran shows the White House’s limited approach on a diplomatic or…

Jassem Mohamed – Bonn 02 April 2021

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