Webcast Wednesday | Syria Trip Report: Next Steps for U.S. Policy

Join us for an expert conversation with scholars and journalists who've spent time on the ground in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime. Watch live starting at 12:00 noon EDT (1600 GMT) on Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

 

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Recent Institute Analysis

Photo of an oil facility in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Iraqi Oil and the Iran Threat Network
Terrorist organizations are exploiting Iraq’s energy sector to the tune of billions of dollars per year, raising the need for more intensive efforts to trace how revenues are routed into oil “voucher” programs and other diversion schemes.
April 2025
  • Michael Knights

In-Depth Studies

Policy Steps to Prevent a Nuclear Iran
Rather than choosing between diplomacy and military action, the Trump administration should think of these options as mutually supportive, sequencing its actions in hopes of achieving the best and least costly outcome.
Jan 28, 2025
  • Michael Singh
Semiconductors, AI, and the Gulf:
In seeking to bolster partnerships and simultaneously protect U.S. technology, officials will need to navigate export options ranging from permissive to restrictive.
Nov 18, 2024
  • Elizabeth Dent
  • Grant Rumley
Understanding Geographic Distinctions in West Bank Public Opinion
Respondents to an extensive new poll shared remarkably independent views on issues ranging from Hamas’s success in the Gaza war to the likelihood of Israel’s collapse.
Oct 8, 2024
  • Catherine Cleveland
Reforming the Palestinian Authority:
The beleaguered governing body requires an overhaul in order to support West Bank stability, postwar governance of Gaza, and a revived political process with Israel.
Jul 22, 2024
  • Neomi Neumann
  • Ghaith al-Omari

Interactive Map: ISIS Global Activity

Interactive Tool: Tracking Maritime Attacks in Middle East Waters Since 2019

Arab Public Opinion 2014 to Today

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Maps & Graphics
TWI Interactive Polling Platform
Interactive datasets, from 2014 to today
Jun 30, 2022