Nicholas Rasmussen served as NCTC Director from 2014 to 2017, as a senior member of the National Security Council staff under Presidents Bush and Obama, and as counterterrorism coordinator for the ...

Michael Jacobson is the Mark and Wayne Levy Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute's Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. Prior to rejoining the Institute, Mr.

Crispin Smith is a Washington DC-based national security attorney and leads an initiative designed to impose non-kinetic costs against human rights abusers and great power competitors. He is a ...

Top commanders have purportedly raised a slew of concerns with the Supreme Leader, from funding shortfalls to corruption among regime elites. As described in Part 1 and Part 2 of this PolicyWatch, a ...

Elizabeth Dent is the Nathan and Esther K. Wagner Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where she focuses on U.S. foreign and defense policy toward the Gulf states, Iraq, and ...

Wladimir van Wilgenburg is the coauthor of the recently published book The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts. He is a contributor to Fikra Forum. Brief Analysis Iranian ...

Alannah Travers is a British-German journalist and consultant based in Iraq between 2021 and 2023, who previously supported the Coalition for Just Reparations (C4JR), an alliance of 34 Iraqi NGOs ...

David Schenker is the Taube Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics. He is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern ...

Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow and director of the Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute. Articles & Testimony Why do Iranian officials ...

The ambitious plan would have seen Delta Crescent, a tiny Delaware company, try to bring peace and stability to the war-ravaged northeast, but local corruption, a lack of U.S. commitment, and other ...

Mohamed Maher is an Egyptian journalist and researcher based in the United States, and a former participant in IVLP's exchange program sponsored by the State Department. Despite economic losses, Egypt ...

Given his strong ties to the IRGC, Khamenei’s son might pursue extreme strategic options. This week, the New York Times and other media reported that Iranian authorities are leaning toward naming ...