Turkey-Israel Tensions: Why Cyprus Could Become the Next Military Flashpoint
On August 2nd — sixteen days before Israeli jets hit a Syrian airbase and set off the loudest…
How the Mecca Pact Rewires Tehran’s Nuclear Calculus
On August 7th, with American warships blockading Iranian ports and Iranian fast boats still harassing tankers off the…
Op-Ed: This Was Never Just About Israel
The following is an op-ed authored by Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) CEO Sacha Roytman: A photograph sent to…
Opinion: The Strait, the superpower and the rest of us — Part 2
IN Part One, we traced the forty-five-year doctrine that turned the Persian Gulf into a permanent American commitment, and…
Middle East in turmoil five months into the war: Cornered Iran raises the stakes as US loses grip on the post-war landscape
Five months after the outbreak of the war with Iran, Donald Trump is facing a challenge very different…
Opinion: The Strait, the superpower and the rest of us — Part 1
THERE is an old saying, often attributed to the British Empire: nations rarely lose their empires in battle.…
Analysis: What Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan Victory Means for Democrats and Israel
The following analysis was authored by Tablet Magazine columnist and CAM editorial advisor Lee Smith: The Democratic Party’s…
A Call for Protection for the Indigenous Assyrian People of Northern Iraq
Kurdish forces blockade Assyrian villages in north Iraq.(AINA) — For decades, the world has heard repeated claims that…
Why Can Neither Washington Nor Tehran Talk Without Pakistan in the Room?
The 2026 war between Israel, the United States and Iran produced two outcomes that are easy to conflate…
Will the War Resume? Three Scenarios Facing Iran and the United States
Islam Times – Over the past 72 hours, reciprocal attacks between Iran and the United States, an expanded…
Analysis: Iran War Fallout Shifting America’s Middle East Anchor From Riyadh to Jerusalem
The following analysis was authored by Tablet Magazine columnist and CAM editorial advisor Lee Smith: Media reports this…
U.S.–Iran Negotiations and the New Architecture of the Middle East
After months of military confrontations, mutual attacks, the partial blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, and fears of…