4+ day, 15+ min ago   (504+ words) Turkey’s growing engagement with Khalifa Haftar comes as Washington pushes a new bid to reunify Libya, with Ankara seeking influence across its rival camps. But with Libya’s divisions still entrenched, can Turkey help bridge the divide? Six years ago, Turkey…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (646+ words) Washington is openly supporting the creation of an Arab-led security architecture to take on some of America’s prior responsibilities in the region. The thread running through both initiatives is clear: regional states taking greater responsibility for their own security. After…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (317+ words) The US military has hundreds of bases and facilities around the world. Are they worth it? Americans have grown accustomed to a fire-ready-aim approach to the use of force. With US military personnel stationed at hundreds of bases and other…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (426+ words) Even as Washington launched war on Iran twice in a year, its nukes provided remarkably little leverage. For decades, the United States treated the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon as an intolerable threat. Yet when Washington and Tehran went…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (525+ words) Will the Mecca Pact upend the balance of power in the Middle East? Although the pact has come into being amid the ongoing US‑Iran confrontation, it need not be construed as an expressly anti‑Iran coalition. On the contrary,…...