It has been one year since the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, killed by a team of assassins with ties to the highest levels of the Saudi government| The Soufan Center
Israel is facing both internal and external challenges as the country comes under enormous pressure from multiple escalating situations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is attempting to subvert Israel’s democracyin a move straight from the authoritarian playbook| The Soufan Center
U.S. and international officials, evaluating an expansion of mediation efforts and direct talks between the conflict parties and their outside backers, express cautious optimism that an eight-month truce during 2022 can be formally reinstated, paving the way for a possible political solution to the conflict in Yemen| The Soufan Center
In late April, Iran revealed that it held a fifth round of talks with Saudi Arabia in Baghdad, Iraq, the site of most of the previous rounds of meetings in 2021. Iranian media reported that the latest talks were attended by "senior officials from the secretariat of Iran's Supreme National Security Council| The Soufan Center
On January 17, several armed drones struck three petroleum transport tankers near a storage facility for the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) 13 miles from the center of Abu Dhabi city| The Soufan Center
On November 6, several armed drones struck the home of Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who, since taking office in 2020, has sought to balance the interests of the two major stakeholders in Iraq’s politics – the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran| The Soufan Center
At the White House on September 15, 2020, the United States, Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain signed the “Abraham Accords”, a joint statement pledging the normalization of relations between the signing parties| The Soufan Center