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 ...

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.

Henry Tugendhat is a Senior Fellow in the Institute's Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great-Power Competition and the Middle East. U.S. officials have demurred when asked about ...

Shivane Anand is a research associate in The Washington Institute's Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East. The visit will probably confirm the ...

If done astutely, absorbing SDF personnel into the central government can preserve years of U.S. relationship-building and institutional knowledge while giving Washington a unique channel to build ...

With Assad-era laws increasingly triggered by private complaints and enforced unevenly, U.S. officials can no longer relegate these issues to secondary tracks or assume that core administration ...