Until recently, regime change in Iran was approached apprehensively in the world of foreign policy. But now that the Iranian government has murdered thousands[i], if not tens of thousands[ii], of ...
This article is an abridged excerpt from the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum and the UK Abraham Accords Group’s recently published joint policy paper on Israel, Syria and Lebanon’s ...
This article is an abridged excerpt from the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum and the UK Abraham Accords Group’s recently published joint policy paper on Israel, Syria and Lebanon’s ...
Manara Magazine’s forthcoming issue will highlight the ongoing policymaking challenges that countries most affected by climate change in the Middle East and North Africa face, as well as analyse case ...
Avoiding a full-scale invasion of Syria to defeat ISIS, both due to domestic pressure and potential fears of a wider confrontation with Russian and Iranian forces, the U.S. counted on Syrian-Kurdish ...
The Middle East is increasingly gravitating toward parallel – and potentially rival – security architectures. Rather than pursuing strategic diversification within a shared regional order, the United ...
The Trump administration has recently released the 2026 National Defense Strategy[i], outlining its policy for the Middle East. In the wake of the Gaza war and heightening tensions with Iran, the ...
When asked “where are you from, Iraq or Syria?” by a journalist, two children not older than nine shouted from afar “neither – we are from the Islamic State.”[i] This moment, captured in a video in Al ...
As strategic competition between the United States and China intensifies, Western policymakers have become increasingly attentive to the deepening political, economic, and technological ties between ...
As Abu Dhabi moves confidently into the 21st century, shaped by advances in modern economics and statecraft, Riyadh remains constrained by the symbolic and ideological weight of its past. As the ...
On 30 th January, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced a ceasefire with the Syrian government and agreed to the integration of military and administrative units into the Syrian ...
The rapid expansion of commercial satellite constellations, such as Planet, has fundamentally transformed maritime domain awareness (MDA).[i] Governments, industry, and maritime security centres such ...