US democracy promotion in the Middle East: the pursuit of hegemony / Dionysis Markakis. -Oxon, New York: Routledge, 2016. – 205 p
Collision Avoidance: Lessons from U.S. and Russian Operations in Syria. — Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2019. – 22 p
Kingdom of their own: the family Karzai and the Afghan disaster / Joshua Partlow. — New York: Knopf, 2016.- 438 p
The Hunt for KSM: Inside the pursuit and takedown of the real 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed / Terry McDermott, Josh Meyer. – New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2013. – 332 p.
The Issue of US Sanctions against Iran in US-China Relations during Obama’s First Administration. Thesis of MA. – Tehran: University of Tehran, 2013. – 165 p.
Strange rebels: 1979 and the birth of the 21st century / Christian Caryl. — New York, NY: Basic Books, 2013. – 439 p
Illusions of Victory: The Anbar Awakening and the Rise of the Islamic State. — New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. – 281 p
The New Arab Revolt: What Happened, What it Means, and What Comes Next. — New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), 2011. – 497 p
Challenged hegemony: the United States, China, and Russia in the Persian Gulf / Steve A. Yetiv. — Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2018. – 253 p.
The contemporary Middle East: a documentary history / John Felton. — Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2008. – 748 p