Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2026, pp. 64-65 Special Report By Eldar Mamedov THE MOOD IN TEHRAN ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized cargo headed to Iran from China, a U.S. official said, a rare operation at sea aimed at blocking ...

As former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has acknowledged, Iran’s efforts to shape the region’s air defenses as a shield ...

The U.S. military is most likely to suffer a defeat at the hands of China if it tried to intervene in a war over Taiwan, a ...

Taiwan’s deputy foreign minister reportedly made a secret visit to Israel as Taipei seeks deeper defence cooperation despite ...

Providing Iraq’s air defenses, or having the US deploy air defenses at selective sites, is not likely the best answer. The ...

Tehran is rebuilding its missile arsenal at high speed after the 12-day conflict with Israel, aiming to fire 2,000 missiles ...

Khamenei’s authority remains unchallenged, but his strategy has lost its lustre. Iranians across the political spectrum are ...

A man claiming to be an Iranian intelligence officer promised me he would reveal his country’s secrets. Then he disappeared.

A long pattern of rushed training and failed equipment contributed to the embarrassing and costly error, a recently published ...

More money and industry innovation could help the Navy mitigate its challenges. But they don’t tackle the root cause of a ...

CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee urges the world not to lose sight of the plight of everyday Israelis ...