Steven A. Cook is a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His latest book is The End of Ambition: America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East.
A crowd of dozens of people hold flags of Iraq and Hezbollah Brigades along with a small framed portrait of Khamenei as they stand beneath a blue sky scattered with a few small clouds.
A soldier stands guard inside a military camp formerly controlled by the United Arab Emirates in Dhaba, in Yemen's southern Hadramawt province, on Jan. 20.
Netanyahu and Trump are seen at a slightly skewed angle as they sit diagonally at a table in an ornately decorated room. Netanyahu is seen in profile, facing someone off-camera at his side; Trump stares at Netanyahu, shoulders hunched forward, frowning slightly.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on August 26, 2019.
Four people stand while holding a banner that reads Gaza: Action Not Words. On the banner the names of thousands of children who have died as a result of the war.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump participate in a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.
