Two former senior U.S. officials look back at what the ceasefire has produced—and failed to produce—in its first year of implementation, focusing on the underused leverage provided by the July 30 “roadmap” agreement with Hamas. This essay serves as an introduction to a special Washington Institute series analyzing the risks …

Despite a new textbook, an influx of Russian teachers and managers, and an end to the teaching of Ukrainian, the Kremlin is unlikely to have “reprogrammed” locals. In the four-and-a-half years it has controlled southeastern Ukraine, Moscow has established a new education system. Those in charge seek to ensure this …

Damascus overthrew a cell that it said belonged to the Lebanese Hezbollah in southern Syria, specifically in the Yarmouk Basin, a strategic triangle adjacent to the Israeli presence, which is constantly witnessing an Israeli incursion, accompanied by repeated arrest campaigns against the people of the region, since the first moments …