October 7, 2019
SyriaPresident Donald J. Trump’s announcement of a troop withdrawal in northern Syria ahead of a Turkish invasion could revive the Islamic State and the Syrian civil war, and signal the end of U.S. influe…
October 14, 2019
SyriaA major new report about the Syrian war raises the question of whether Washington ever cared about it in the first place.
September 24, 2019
Saudi ArabiaIf the United States is done fighting for Saudi Arabia’s oil, it's done fighting for the entire region.
September 12, 2019
IranThe United States came up with “maximum pressure”—but the Israeli government is the only one carrying it out.
September 10, 2019
IsraelPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future is on the line as Israel votes for the second time in 2019.
October 11, 2019
SyriaWith Turkey’s latest military offensive, here’s a rundown of the different forces in the region.
September 3, 2019
TurkeyAs U.S. policymakers worry about their special relationship with Ankara, Turkey’s president knows it's already dead.
October 9, 2019
UkraineThe latest episode of The President’s Inbox is live. I sat down with Steve Sestanovich, CFR’s senior fellow for Eurasian and Russian studies and the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for the former Sov…
August 19, 2019
IranThe Trump administration’s nonresponse to Iranian aggression has sent an unmistakable message.
September 24, 2019
IndiaThere’s been a lot of coverage of the scale and unprecedented nature of Sunday’s “Howdy, Modi!” rally—the 50,000-plus Indian American participants in the enormous NRG Stadium in Houston, the meaning …
