US President Donald Trump has now said out loud what had previously sounded like a trial balloon: he thinks Syria should take on Hezbollah in Lebanon…
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The electronic ink was barely dry, and Israel already knew what it thought about the emerging agreement. "Bad deal," read the main headline of Yediot…
The past 24 hours have confirmed what analysts have feared for weeks: the fragile architecture of ceasefires, negotiations, and diplomatic gestures…
In the summer of 2006, Ehud Olmert was a newly minted Israeli premier (barely four months into the job) governing with middling approval ratings when…
On 15 May, as Israeli strikes and Hezbollah drone attacks continued in Lebanon, Washington announced that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to extend…
For the first time in decades, Israeli and Lebanese civilian officials sat across a table in Washington and began talking. The discussions—convened…
When the US and Israel waged war on Iran on 28 February 2026, killing its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, two global powers watched intently from afar:…
There is a concept in the philosophy of science called tacit knowledge: the unwritten, experiential understanding that cannot be fully captured in…
On the morning of 28 February 2026, as senior Iranian officials convened for a Saturday security meeting in the heart of Tehran, they had no idea…
Israel and the United States are three days into the most consequential military campaign in the Middle East since the 2003 Iraq invasion—a joint…
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The fragility of Middle East ceasefires
