Trump and Netanyahu are reshaping the region—just not as they imagined.

Can one of the world’s most heavily armed militias be curbed without ripping the country apart?

Even as the U.S. claims to be nearing an agreement to end the conflict, Tehran’s ability to close the Strait of Hormuz and hold the global economy hostage has reinforced the power of regime hard-liners.

How President Trump’s approach to the war in Iran is turning endless conflict, interrupted by fleeting pauses, into the status quo.

How the President’s insistence on Tehran’s unconditional surrender made it impossible to make a deal.

The libertarian-leaning Republican discusses his effort to restrain the President’s actions in Iran, and how he would campaign against other G.O.P. Presidential candidates in 2028.

A recent CISA advisory was a blunt reminder that, in the digital age, the battlefield has expanded to encompass the geography of everyday life.

A recent CISA advisory was a blunt reminder that, in the digital age, the battlefield has expanded to encompass the geography of everyday life.

It’s tough to reach an agreement with a President whose word is not his bond.

Jonathan Czin, a fellow at the Brookings Institution’s China Center, discusses how the ties between China and Iran have been overstated, and what the conflict might mean for the future of Taiwan.

As Trump searches for a friendly successor to the Ayatollah in Tehran, the leadership vacuum in the Iranian regime has been filled by hard-line members of the Revolutionary Guard.

RNS — ‘For an administration that has been using religious language to justify the war, it’s remarkable that they have completely avoided engaging Christian moral theology on this point,’ said Robert P. Jones, a Christian nationalism scholar.

As President Trump’s deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz looms, Tehran is using lessons from the Iran-Iraq War to prepare for an American escalation.

Families are doing ad-hoc forensics to confirm the whereabouts of their detained loved ones, who have been transferred to undisclosed locations, and are at risk of abuse or execution.

Families are doing ad-hoc forensics to confirm the whereabouts of their detained loved ones, who have been transferred to undisclosed locations, and are at risk of abuse or execution.

The President poses an existential question: Can everything be going according to the plan with Iran if there is no plan?

As Iran imposes a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, squeezing the global economy, Trump faces a crisis that echoes one of history’s most revealing strategic failures.

A conflict that was supposed to be brief has sent oil prices soaring and raised the risk of a worldwide recession.

The U.S.-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic is Reza Pahlavi’s best chance to resume his family’s reign in nearly fifty years—will it pass him by?

Will Donald Trump sustain Benjamin Netanyahu’s preëmptive wars?

In the President’s first term, Iran demonstrated what tactics it would use in a confrontation with the U.S. Yet the Administration seems to have no game plan.

“We won,” the President who’s treating the conflict with Iran like a video game says, but “we’re not finished yet.”

Memes such as “monitoring the situation” reflect a deluded belief that we can be more than just passive, confused bystanders to a spray of digital shrapnel.

The ferocity of U.S. and Israeli attacks has raised questions about whether the two countries are even attempting to minimize civilian casualties.

As the conflict rapidly spreads throughout the Middle East, the New Yorker writers Dexter Filkins and Robin Wright discuss the stakes for Iran, the U.S., and the rest of the world.

The regime in Tehran knows it likely can’t win the war, but it can certainly globalize the pain of the conflict—even if it’s ultimately at its own expense.

As the region spasms, the clash between Israel and Hezbollah is gathering force.

Representative Greg Landsman explains his hope that the conflict remains limited but also creates an entirely new Middle East.

So far, explanations are few and the goals—from regime change to ending a nuclear program the President already claimed to have “obliterated”—are many.

The Supreme Leader, who ruled the Islamic Republic for nearly four decades, has been killed by Israel and the United States. Can the regime survive without him?