Earlier this week, the Russian police opened a reconciliation center in the countryside of Homs, Syria. The purpose of this center is to facilitate the return of people living in opposition-held…

Diplomacy as a tool for managing international relations in times of peace and in the process of searching for solutions to a state of war has garnered several adjectives. Each one of these…

The short pause in the almost century-long relationship between the United States and Middle East allies was perhaps necessary for all involved parties to realize and appreciate the extent of their…

Over two days at the end of June, the leaders of NATO member states met at a summit in Madrid amid a palpable sense that the alliance they were there to discuss had suddenly become a lot more…

Members of the Security Council earlier this week agreed to extend cross-border humanitarian aid delivery to Syria for 6 months only. The decision was in response to Russia’s intent to confront…

One of the many ironies of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was its pretext - to rid the country of a Nazi administration, despite the head of that administration being Jewish. Another was Russia’s…

With Moscow preoccupied with the Ukrainian war and the withdrawal of some of its forces and senior military leaders from Syrian territory after an intervention that lasted for years and prevented the…

But is it time for the Ukrainian war to stop? All of the tools of deterrence have been used and countries have been exhausted from the economic sanctions to the massive armament of the Ukrainian army…

June 24 will mark four months since Russia’s unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. The war rages on without an end in sight. Both sides have new objectives now, to which they are…

Liam Fox, a member of the British House of Commons of the Conservative Party, and head of the Abrahamic Accords Group in the United Kingdom, held high positions in the British government and chaired…