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May 20, 2024

Middle East Program
Virtual Media Briefing: Iran After Raisi and New ICC Charges

CFR experts discuss the implications of the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, new International Criminal Court charges against Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leadership, and other updates from …

Play Outside the Iranian embassy in Baghdad after the deaths of Raisi and others
Virtual Event by Steven A. Cook, David J. Scheffer, Ray Takeyh, and Carla Anne Robbins Middle East Program

March 28, 2023

United States
A Conversation With Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa Monaco: Defending the Rule of Law Against Hostile Nation States

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco discusses how the Department of Justice is countering new and evolving threats to the rule of law posed by hostile nation states, from transnational repression to …

Play Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco speaks at a podium during a news conference with U.S. flags behind her
Virtual Event by Lisa O. Monaco and John B. Bellinger III U.S. Foreign Policy Program

May 8, 2024

Middle East and North Africa
War in Gaza Update: The Rafah Incursion and Negotiations Over Hostage Release and Ceasefire

 

Play Israeli forces launch a ground and air operation in the eastern part of Rafah
Virtual Event by Elliott Abrams, Steven A. Cook, and Carla Anne Robbins Middle East Program

June 6, 2023

Turkey
Erdoğan’s Victory, With Steven A. Cook

Steven A. Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what the reelection of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan…

Podcast Second round of the presidential election in Ankara
Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Steven A. Cook The President’s Inbox

October 25, 2022

Saudi Arabia
U.S.-Saudi Relations, With Steven A. Cook

Steven A. Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the future of the relationship between the United Sta…

Podcast Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.S. President Joe Biden meet at Al Salman Palace upon his arrival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Steven A. Cook The President’s Inbox

March 8, 2024

Middle East and North Africa
Five Months of War: Where Israel, Hamas, and the U.S. Stand

The death toll from the Israel-Hamas war continues to mount, with no lasting settlement in sight. Meanwhile, concerns about humanitarian catastrophe and regional violence are spreading.

A backlit Israeli army tank moving along the Israeli-Gaza Strip border at sunset
Expert Brief by Steven A. Cook Middle East Program

May 28, 2024

Palestinian Territories
Who Governs the Palestinians?

Power in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the so-called Palestinian territories, has been divided among three entities: a governing body called the Palestinian Authority, the militant group Hamas, a…

Palestinians wave their national flag as they rally beneath images of President Mahmoud Abbas and his predecessor, Yasser Arafat
Backgrounder by Kali Robinson