Saudi Arabia
Preventing direct flights to Mecca would be a step backward.
Open ties between the two nations are in everyone’s interest, but it will take serious intent and deft maneuvering from America to get there. Is the administration up to it?
The latest public-opinion survey.
The Abraham Accords can be a strategic instrument in America’s competition with Russia and China.
Three possible outcomes, all bad.
In pivoting from the Middle East, Washington risks ceding ground to China.
A question of when, not if.
The U.S. should end it before it’s too late.
Despite negotiations, Iranian proxies fight on.
Possible signs of inching toward normalization with Israel.
The consequences of tepid support for the anti-Iran bloc.
Riyadh still has many reasons to fear Tehran.
Reassurances from the U.S. could prevent a destabilizing arms race.
Haste is from the devil.