Adham Sahloul

2 weeks ago | cnas.org | Adham Sahloul |Vivek Chilukuri |Samuel Bendett

Retired Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan is an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for New American Security. Shanahan provided some context on how the two Middle East countries got here in the first place. “Israel has been concerned for a long time about Iran’s nuclear enrichment program,” Shanahan said. “They’ve been adamant that if they reach a certain point where they presumed where Iran would get a nuclear weapon in a certain amount of time.”Watch the full interview on WRAL.NEWS.

2 weeks ago | cnas.org | Stacie L. Pettyjohn |Hamzeh Hadad |Rachel Ziemba |Adham Sahloul

The stars and stripes now fly over the reopened United States ambassador’s residence in Damascus, Syria. Lebanon’s new, technocratic president and prime minister have a historic opportunity, in curbing a weakened and decapitated Hezbollah, to restore the state’s monopoly on weapons for the first time since the end of the civil war nearly 35 years ago. Yemen’s Houthis have cut a deal with the US to cease their attacks on American ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.