Former officials and advisors discuss the newly announced Palestinian legislative elections in light of Hamas’s leadership change, Israel’s political imperatives, growing violence in the West Bank, and the prospects for jump-starting the Trump administration’s stalled transition plan in Gaza. On July 23, The Washington Institute held a virtual Policy Forum …

Regardless of where the current round of escalation goes, Tehran will continue using ceasefires, front-loaded sanctions waivers, and tit-for-tat attack cycles as opportunities to reconstitute its forces until Washington imposes hard, verifiable limits on its fastest-recovering asymmetric capabilities. A week after the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding (MOU) collapsed, military hostilities …

Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to call up hundreds of thousands of new soldiers to fight in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, as the Kremlin tries to balance its high casualty count with public opinion turning away from the war. Putin will mobilize between 300,000 and 500,000 …