Press
Showing 1-20 of 184 Items
-
Explainer: How a Democratic U.S. House could alter foreign policy
In The News
Democrats will try to harden U.S. policy toward Saudi Arabia, Russia and North Korea if they win a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, while maintaining the status ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
In Washington, Israel Stays Quiet As Anger Grows Over Saudi Arabia And Khashoggi
In The News
As the days drag by without a Saudi explanation for what happened to Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist who disappeared inside the Saudi Consulate in Turkey and ha...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Trump Rewrites Rules of the Game in Middle East Peace Talks
In The News
Borders. Jerusalem. Palestinian refugees. One by one, the U.S. is taking core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict off the table. President Donald Trump’s administration...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Long odds for peace as Trump roils Mideast with embassy move
In The News
President Donald Trump’s prospects for brokering the Mideast peace “deal of the century” plunged ever deeper Monday as the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem opened amid bloodshed in G...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Europe is threatening to fight Trump on Iran sanctions
In The News
When the Trump administration withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, it notified the world that companies doing business with Iran have between three and six months t...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Kushner shares Jerusalem embassy spotlight
In The News
Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Jared Kushner has served as the administration’s point person in the Middle East, eclipsing even the secretary of state in some me...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Israel fears ‘explosion of violence’ as US prepares to open embassy in Jerusalem
In The News
Police in Israel have started patrols and security sweeps of a southern Jerusalem neighbourhood, anxiously preparing for a US embassy inauguration that Israelis and Palestinia...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
American and Iranian hard-liners await the end of the nuclear deal
In The News
We are entering the final stretch ahead of President Trump's likely decision to pull out of the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. His administration has to decide by...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Chatty Pompeo strikes early contrast with reclusive Tillerson
In The News
Mike Pompeo, the new secretary of state, is leaning hard into the side of the job his predecessor seemed to hate the most: public relations. Within hours of being confirmed la...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Can Macron Keep Trump From Shredding the Iran Deal?
In The News
As if the upcoming nuclear summit with North Korea, the latest U.S. intervention in Syria, and President Trump’s controversial new national security team weren’t generating en...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
As Trump considers military action on Syria, Pentagon worries it could put Russian soldiers in the crosshairs
In The News
As Pentagon planners ready a possible military response to a suspected poison gas attack in Syria, one danger has sparked special concern — whether U.S. airstrikes may inadver...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
The Real Danger in Qatar-Gulf Feud is Iran, U.S. Officials Say
In The News
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is scrambling to mend a diplomatic rift between Qatar and its Persian Gulf neighbors and has grown increasingly worried that the emirate is...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
The past 48 hours of big Syria news, explained
In The News
Syria used chemical weapons against its own citizens, killing at least 42 adults and children. President Donald Trump threatened a military response in a tweet, vowing that Sy...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Trump Just Jeopardized America’s Biggest Asset in the Syria War, U.S. Officials Say
In The News
Donald Trump’s outbursts this week about getting U.S. troops out of Syria have done substantial damage to Washington’s influence over its crucial Syrian ally, knowledgeable cu...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Congress: We Can’t Stop Trump From Killing the Iran Deal
In The News
Key lawmakers are predicting that President Donald Trump will pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal later this spring. And although there is an appetite on Capit...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Trump Chose Pompeo as Kindred Spirit to Take Over U.S. Diplomacy
In The News
Mike Pompeo had an audition for his new job as secretary of state just about every morning at the White House, where the CIA director gave President Donald Trump his top-secre...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Mattis losing a close ally in Tillerson but also a weak partner
The loss of one of his closest allies may give Defense Secretary Jim Mattis a strengthened relationship with President Donald Trump. Departing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Who is Mike Pompeo, President Trump’s pick for secretary of state?
WASHINGTON — Mike Pompeo, the current CIA director who President Donald Trump has picked to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, is known for both his close ties with ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Can Jared Kushner navigate Middle East peace without top secret clearance?il
Kushner, who along with being the son-in-law of President Donald Trump carries the titles of assistant to the president, senior adviser to the president and director of the Of...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
The U.S. Has Put Itself in an Impossible Situation in Syria
After years of battle, the U.S. is on the cusp of defeating ISIS in Syria, but the tactics it’s used to do so have left the military in a strategic hole of epic proportions. C...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
