Situation Report: Rockets fired at U.S. embassy in Baghdad
2021 Outlook Assessment Rockets targeted Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone on December 20, home to the U.S. embassy and diplomatic...
Maya Carlin
Analyst
Maya Carlin is an analyst at the Center for Security Policy, located in Washington D.C. She also has a M.A. in Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security from IDC Herzliya’s Lauder School of Government in Israel.
Maya Carlin is an analyst at the Center for Security Policy, located in Washington D.C. She also has a M.A. in Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security from IDC Herzliya’s Lauder School of Government in Israel.
Cutting Off Saudi Arabia Would Only Embolden its Worst Impulses
2021 Outlook Assessment Originally published by National Interest As Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron face pressure to terminate dialogue with...
How Joe Biden Can Learn from His Prior Mistakes in Iraq
2021 Outlook Assessment Originally published at the National Interest A commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed by an...
Iraq’s Prime Minister Faces a Litany of Tough Security Challenges
Originally published in The National Interest On November 18, Iraq’s foreign minister condemned a rocket attack the previous day in Baghdad’s Green...
Situation Report: Trump orders troop reductions in Afghanistan, Iraq
The Defense Department is expected to cut nearly 2,000 troops from Afghanistan and 500 troops from Iraq by mid-January, according...
Proxy Wars: How Turkey and Iran Employ Militias Abroad
Originally published by The National Interest Iran and Turkey are using proxy militias to insert themselves in conflicts across the Middle...
Turkey Is Prolonging The Bloodshed In Nagorno-Karabakh
Originally published by The National Interest As the civilian death toll continues to rise at the site of the Armenian-Azerbaijani...
On the Anniversary of Iraq’s Uprising, Iran Still Kills With Impunity
Originally published by the National Interest In order for Iraqi Prime Minister Kadhimi to stabilize the U.S.-Iraqi relationship and quell...
What’s behind the Ankara-Tehran partnership?
Originally published by Jewish News Syndicate (September 16, 2020 / JNS) In a video conference on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and...
Will the new wave of protests in Iraq finally thwart Iranian influence?
Originally posted by The Times of Israel Following the murders of three prominent anti-corruption activists in Iraq, frustrated demonstrators once...
Erdogan tests Iraq’s sovereignty in latest round of airstrikes
Originally published by the Jerusalem Post Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi must draw a red line to thwart Turkey’s aggression....
Tehran’s proxies continue to be a regional spoiler
Originally published by the Jerusalem Post Common thread connecting Lebanon and Iraq’s worsening turmoil is the influence of Iran. On...
Al-Kadhimi’s balancing act of US-Iranian tensions and Iraqi sovereignty
Originally published by the Jerusalem Post Iraq’s new prime minister must juggle rising US-Iranian tensions and Iraqi sovereignty amid his...
China’s medicinal monopoly leaves the world vulnerable
Originally published by AndMagazine Coronavirus has revealed America’s dependence on China for protective and medical supplies. The Chinese government stunned...
Turkey, Iran test new Iraqi PM’s resolve
Originally published by the Israel Hayom On June 18, Baghdad summoned the ambassadors from Iran and Turkey to discuss their...
Is Iraq’s new PM losing the fight against Iranian-backed militias?
Originally published by the Jerusalem Post Kadhimi pledged to rein in Iranian-backed militias, but recent events highlight the difficulty of...