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• Video
  • May 9, 2018
  Israel's Security at 70: Panels on Regional Security and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

  CNAS's Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras join the Israel Policy Forum for a panel on Israel security seventy years after its founding.  Watch more from the IPF...

  By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras

• Video
  • April 16, 2018
  UN holds emergency meeting on Syria chemical attack

  CBSN interviews CNAS Middle East Security Fellow Nicholas Heras on the newest US strikes and the evolving American policy in Syria. Watch the full clip here. ...

  By Nicholas Heras

• Video
  • April 13, 2018
  Trump Faces 'Red Line Moment' for Syria Options, CNAS says

  Nicholas Heras, Center for a New American Security, Middle East Security Fellow, explains Trumps military options with Syria. He speaks with Haidi Lun and Betty Liu on "Bloom...

  By Nicholas Heras

• Video
  • April 6, 2018
  What is the impact of withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria?

  President Trump is pushing for the U.S. to withdraw troops from Syria. On Wednesday leaders from Iran, Russia and Turkey met to discuss what the future of the region may look ...

  By Nicholas Heras

• Commentary
  • Washington Post
  • January 29, 2018
  Obama’s ISIS policy is working for Trump

  Last week, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivered a speech that after a year in office finally laid out a new strategy for Syria. The part that’s getting the most attentio...

  By Nicholas Heras & Ilan Goldenberg

• Commentary
  • October 30, 2017
  Middle East Security Forum 2017

  In a region long known for its complexity, the Middle East landscape seems to grow more complicated by the week. To help unpack the latest developments—about Iran’s nuclear pr...

  By Michèle Flournoy, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras

• • Commentary
  • The Atlantic
  • June 9, 2017
  Is America Getting Sucked Into More War in Syria?

  While Washington was fixated this week by former FBI director James Comey’s testimony, on the other side of the planet, a major story was playing out that could have profound ...

  By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras

• Podcast
  • June 8, 2017
  A Strategy for Ending the Syrian Civil War

  By Colin H. Kahl, Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Neal Urwitz

• Podcast
  • April 11, 2017
  The U.S. Military Role in Libya: Where are we now?

  Nicholas Heras, Bacevich Fellow at CNAS, discusses the U.S. military role in Libya and local partner forces in the fight against ISIS. Hosted by Neal Urwitz....

  By Nicholas Heras & Neal Urwitz

• • Commentary
  • Syria Comment
  • April 10, 2017
  Russia’s Escalation in Syria: Making It Tougher to Fight ISIS?

  On Thursday, the Trump administration decided to fire 59 cruise missiles from U.S. naval vessels in the Mediterranean at the Al-Shayrat airbase, an important Syrian military a...

  By Nicholas Heras

• Commentary
  • The Washington Post
  • April 7, 2017
  Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras discuss Syria in The Washington Post

  In The Washington Post, CNAS Middle East Security Program experts Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras discuss President Donald Trump's decision to launch missile strikes agains...

  By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras

• Podcast
  • April 7, 2017
  The Strategic Implications of the U.S. Strike on Syria

  CNAS Middle East experts Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras discuss U.S. missiles strikes on Syria and its implications....

  By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Neal Urwitz

• • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • March 30, 2017
  Can Trump End the War in Syria?

  With the near-doubling of U.S. forces in northern Syria, and perhaps more on the way, President Donald Trump is moving aggressively on his pledge to “demolish and destroy” wha...

  By Colin H. Kahl, Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras

• • Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • March 24, 2017
  Will the United States Be a Victim of Its Own Success in Syria?

  The ministerial meeting of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS held in Washington, DC was an important milestone on the path to the Trump team’s mission to fully defeat the w...

  By Nicholas Heras

• Podcast
  • March 21, 2017
  68 Foreign Ministers and Senior Leaders Meet to Discuss Fight against ISIS

  State Secretary Tillerson will host 68 foreign ministers and senior leaders of the Global Coalition, the first meeting of the global coalition working to defeat ISIS. Meanwhil...

  By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Neal Urwitz

• Podcast
  • January 11, 2017
  Nicholas Heras on New Report, "Combating Al-Qaeda in Syria"

  By Nicholas Heras & JaRel Clay

• • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • September 1, 2016
  Al Qaeda Is Gaining Strength in Syria

  The struggle for Aleppo poses an awful threat for the United States. The ongoing battle for what was once Syria’s second-largest city has united two of the most prominent oppo...

  By Nicholas Heras

• • Commentary
  • May 22, 2016
  Fighting Terrorism in Syria: It's More Than ISIS

  The fact of the matter is that although the United States has provided military assistance to individual Syrian armed opposition groups led by “trusted commanders” since 2012,...

  By Nicholas Heras

• • Commentary
  • May 10, 2016
  From the Bottom, Up: A Strategy for U.S. Military Support to Syria’s Armed Opposition

  As negotiations continue to uphold a teetering ceasefire in Syria, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Middle East Security Program researcher Nicholas Heras has written...

  By Nicholas Heras

• • Commentary
  • April 15, 2016
  Taking the Fight to "ISILSTAN": Displacing and Replacing ISIL in Eastern Syria and Western Iraq

  More so than at any time in recent history, last month demonstrated the dichotomous nature of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) current situation. On the one h...

  By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Paul Scharre