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Security Experts Concerned with Reports of Russia’s Interest in Mediating U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks
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Days after President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance clashed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, the Trump administration took another s...
By Jonathan Lord
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Israel and Hamas Are Teetering Toward War
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Just over three weeks into a cease-fire that has brought the Gaza Strip relative peace, Israel and Hamas are already moving toward a return to war....
By Jonathan Lord
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Russia Signs Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with Iran
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Months after the initial announcement, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed today the long-awaited Comprehensive Strategic Partnersh...
By Jonathan Lord
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Israel Says It Has Carried Out Hundreds of Strikes on Syria, Targeting ‘Strategic Weapons Stockpiles’
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Israel says it has launched hundreds of airstrikes on Syria in the days since Bashar Assad's regime collapsed. On Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said it had "struck most o...
By Jonathan Lord
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U.S. Hit Targets in Syria With Ferocity, Not the Only One
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The US military has carried out extensive airstrikes in Syria since the Assad regime collapsed over the weekend, and it's not the only country on the hunt for targets in this ...
By Jonathan Lord
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How Israel Tries to Destroy Hezbollah’s Financial Network
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On Sunday, Israel carried out air strikes in Beirut and elsewhere in Lebanon, targeting branches of Al-Qard Al-Hassan Association (AQAH), a financial institution and de facto ...
By Jonathan Lord
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Israel Killed Hamas’s Leader. What Happens Next?
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The killing of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas and architect of the October 7 attacks, could be a pivotal moment in the war in Gaza and the wider conflict in the Middle East...
By Jonathan Lord
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The New U.S. Strategy on the Lebanon Conflict: Let It Play Out
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After weeks of intensive diplomacy aimed at securing a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah militants, the United States has settled on an altogether different approach: let...
By Jonathan Lord
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Israel Seeks to Reshape Middle East, with Force and U.S. Backing
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One year after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, Israel is reshaping the Middle East by force, taking the fight to Iran and its proxies with the help of the United States — despite pleas...
By Jonathan Lord
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U.S. Seeks to Sideline Hizbollah in Lebanon
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US President Joe Biden did not press Benjamin Netanyahu to halt Israel’s escalating offensive in Lebanon when the pair spoke this week, as a government spokesperson said the U...
By Jonathan Lord
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Ground Offensive Preceded by Year of Secret Raids in Lebanon, Israel Says
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Disclosing the raids as it begins the ground incursion allows Israel to highlight Hezbollah’s buildup of offensive infrastructure for an Oct. 7-style attack, said Jonathan Lor...
By Jonathan Lord
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What Might Come Next for Israel — and the U.S. — in Wake of Iranian Attack
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After Iran rained ballistic missiles on Israel on Tuesday for the second time in sixth months, the focus now turns to the question of what comes next: how Israel will respond,...
By Jonathan Lord
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‘The King Doesn’t Lie Down to Save the Pawn’: Why Iran May Let Hezbollah Face Israel Alone
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Hezbollah has been propped up by Iran all these years to be a threat on Israel’s border that Tehran can activate in case of open conflict between Israel and Iran, according to...
By Jonathan Lord
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Middle East Braces for Iran’s Next Move After Israel’s Killing of Hezbollah Leadership
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Since its involvement in Syria in 2012 to defend Bashar al-Assad’s regime alongside other Iran-backed militias, Hezbollah has built bases and an elaborate network of tunnels i...
By Jonathan Lord
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The Withdrawal That Wasn't
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Much of what the American forces are doing in Iraq is to support operations in Syria, which also will not see much of a change. There are roughly 900 U.S. troops in Syria, whe...
By Jonathan Lord
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Biden’s Ukraine Strategy Is Missing in Action
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Longtime congressional staffers said that the Biden administration blowing through the deadline was par for the course for both Democratic and Republican administrations, whic...
By Jonathan Lord
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Israel Scored Major Intelligence Wins in Daring Assassinations of Iranian Proxy Leaders
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Jonathan Lord, formerly a political military analyst at the Pentagon, said the operation to kill Shukr was likely informed by combat intelligence. Israel found where he was at...
By Jonathan Lord
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High-Profile Assassinations Push Iran and Israel to the Brink of War
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Israel has refused to comment on any involvement in Haniyeh’s death, but Netanyahu gave a defiant speech at the IDF’s headquarters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, saying Israel had ...
By Jonathan Lord
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Hezbollah Chief Signals ‘New Phase’ of War with Israel. What Happens Next Is Unclear
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Jonathan Lord, a regional expert with the Center for a New American Security, said that while Nasrallah’s denial of Hezbollah’s role in the Majdal Shams attack is “not credibl...
By Jonathan Lord
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U.S. Shrugs Off ‘All-Out War’ Worries in Middle East
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JONATHAN LORD, director of the Middle East Security program at the Center for a New American Security, said that however Israel responds, “we’ll have to wait and see” what Hez...
By Jonathan Lord
