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What Trump Knew About the Attack Against Iran

Missy Ryan, Jonathan Lemire, and Isaac Stanley-Becker

June 13, 2025

Donald Trump speaking into a microphone

Iran’s Stunning Incompetence

June 13, 2025

People gather at the scene of a residential complex struck by Israel in Tehran.

October 7 Changed Israel’s Calculus

June 13, 2025

A stylized, pixelated image of Netanyahu is shown on a yellow banner, with a piece of an Israeli flag flying in the foreground

Israel’s Least Bad Option Is a Trump Deal With Iran

June 12, 2025

A red hand in front of a blue background extinguishes the fuse of a bomb.

Trump Is Making Netanyahu Nervous

May 24, 2025

A composite image of two photos edited together to make it appear as if Benjamin Netanyahu is whispering in Donald Trump’s ear

Washington Week With The Atlantic

Trump’s Transactional Foreign Policy

May 17, 2025

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic

Trump Heads Back to Where He Started

Jonathan Lemire

May 9, 2025

President Donald Trump is greeted by Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, king of Saudi Arabia, in Riyad on May 20, 2017.

An ‘America First’ Deal With the Houthis

Robert F. Worth

May 6, 2025

A child looks at a building destroyed by U.S. air strikes in Yemen

The Atlantic Daily

Inside the Fight Over Trump’s Foreign Policy

April 23, 2025

Donald Trump sits at a table next to Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio

Iran’s Negotiating Position Gets Worse and Worse

April 15, 2025

Witkoff and Aragchi

Iran Wants to Talk

April 3, 2025

Diptych with black-and-white photos of Ali Khamenei and Donald Trump

An Iranian American Rom-Com That Breaks the Mold

Porochista Khakpour

March 26, 2025

Black-and-white photo of a couple lying in the grass with a color photo of flowers overlaying it

The Iranian Dissident Asking Simple Questions

March 12, 2025

Close-up images of Sadegh Zibakalam and Tehran's skyline

What Trump Is Really After in the Middle East

February 27, 2025

A Palestinian village neighbors an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

The Axis of Resistance Keeps Getting Smaller

February 25, 2025

in Baghdad. a woman in hijab walks past portraits of the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani.

How America Wasted Its Most Powerful Economic Weapon

February 24, 2025

Ripped red paper revealing Putin's eyes

Why Reading Lolita in Tehran Holds Up

January 26, 2025

Two women with uncovered hair sit on a wall overlooking the city of Tehran.

Biden’s Middle East Legacy

January 26, 2025

Diplomacy Is All Hamas Has Left in the Arsenal

January 19, 2025

A photo of a man's hand using a green Hamas flag to cover a Palestinian grave.

Brace for Foreign-Policy Chaos

Jonathan Lemire

January 16, 2025

Iran’s Return to Pragmatism

January 14, 2025

Posters of Hassan Rouhani

RIP, the Axis of Resistance

December 17, 2024

A broken picture of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani

A Mindset for the Trump Era

December 13, 2024

Many white and opaque silhouettes walking in one direction, one in bright red walking the other way, with a giant shadow of Donald Trump behind them.

The Atlantic Daily

Three Ways to Understand Syria’s Future

December 9, 2024

National Syrian Army soldiers celebrate in Hama, Syria, throwing up a peace sign

When a Father Chooses His Politics Over His Family

December 8, 2024

Iman in The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Khamenei Loses Everything

December 8, 2024

The Iranian embassy in Damascus

The Syrian Regime Collapsed Gradually—And Then Suddenly

December 8, 2024

A defaced bust of Hafez al-Assad

The Folly of Ignoring Syria This Long

December 6, 2024

Exploded buildings in Syria

The Fall of Aleppo Was Oddly Familiar

December 2, 2024

Photo of street view in Aleppo with smoke billowing above buildings and wrecked bombed cars in the foreground.

How to End the War in Gaza

Stuart E. Eizenstat and Dennis Ross

December 2, 2024

Pigeons fly away after an Israeli rocket hits a building in Beirut

A Late Win for Biden in the Middle East

November 28, 2024

A mother and her son standing atop the rubble of a destroyed house in Tyre, Lebanon

The Problem With Boycotting Israel

November 20, 2024

A graphic illustration of a red pen, piercing through a blue book

Israel Is Fighting a Different War Now

November 15, 2024

Israeli tanks in Sderot

Xi May Lose His Gamble

Michael Schuman

November 3, 2024

The Greatest Opportunity That Wasn’t

November 2, 2024

Silhouettes of armed soldiers in contralux

‘The Iranian Period Is Finished’

Robert F. Worth

October 31, 2024

A photo of Beirut on September 28, 2024, hours after Israeli bombs targeted and killed Hezbollah's secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah