The Incomparable Risk of an Israeli War With Hezbollah

A conflict could quickly spread to Syria and Iraq – before enveloping the whole region.

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Israeli forces have been waging war in Gaza for eight months, yet the countries to Israel’s north currently pose its greatest security challenge. On June 18, Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group released nearly 10 minutes of drone footage – filmed in daylight – apparently overlooking Haifa in northern Israel. Captured in the video were residential and […]

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Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. Dr. Bokhari is now the Senior Director, Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Dr. Bokhari is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. He has served as the Coordinator for Central Asia Studies at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Kamran Bokhari