Yesterday, the container ship Ever Lovely (IMO 9629110) was reportedly hit by a drone while taking the Omani route (see map above for location; for full details on the incident, see The Washington ...

Heba El Koudsy is an Egyptian-American journalist who has served as Washington bureau chief for Asharq Al-Awsat since 2017, and previously worked for several Egyptian and Gulf publications in Egypt, ...

Loosening Tehran’s grip on the strait and its disruption of the global economy would entail not only reducing threats to navigation, but also increasing pressure on the Iranian economy in order to ...

The statements made by President Trump and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announcing this weekend’s operations—codenamed “Epic Fury” by the United States and “Roaring Lion” by Israel—reflect close ...

Rather than choose between a narrow nuclear deal and open-ended war, the United States should conduct limited military strikes against Iran’s missile program and security services and double down on a ...

Elizabeth Dent is the Nathan and Esther K. Wagner Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where she focuses on U.S. foreign and defense policy toward the Gulf states, Iraq, and ...

In late September, China hosted the fifth China–Arab states BeiDou Cooperation Forum. Launched in 2017 with scientists from the Arab League and the China National Space Administration, the forum is ...

Despite their confident saber rattling, both sides face real constraints that could impede their operational goals, and their actions increase the risks to maritime security, energy exports, and ...

Sarah Boches is a research assistant at The Washington Institute. Tehran’s recruitment of Israelis for military surveillance, sabotage, assassination plots, and other operations is on the rise, ...

Erik Yavorsky is a development assistant with The Washington Institute, and previously held the position of research assistant within the Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics at the institute ...

David Schenker is the Taube Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics. He is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern ...

Wladimir van Wilgenburg is the coauthor of the recently published book The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts. He is a contributor to Fikra Forum. Brief Analysis Iranian ...