Tag: Middle East and North Africa

Turkey’s defense industry just enjoyed a banner week on the international stage. Representatives from more than a 100 countries descended upon Istanbul at the end of July to partake in ...

Israel is likely to launch another war with Iran before December—perhaps even as early as late August. Iran is expecting and preparing for the attack. It played the long game ...

Given the tumultuous events of the past several years, it is tempting to herald the emergence of a “new Middle East.” But how many times have we heard that? The ...

In the early 19th century, the Al Qasimi clan posed a formidable challenge to the British East India Company. They were labeled as a dangerous tribe of pirates with whom the ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where John has had an eventful week reacquainting himself with the United Nations HQ’s maze of hallways and stairwells ahead of the U.N. ...

In a carefully choreographed ceremony on July 11 in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, 30 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) symbolically burned their weapons. This unprecedented act was a signal of ...

For years, politicians, diplomats, analysts, and journalists working on the Middle East worried that a war between Iran and Israel could quickly spill over into the Arab world. If Israel ...

In the weeks following the Israeli strikes on Iran in June, something unusual happened. For decades, Iranians had been among the most pro-American populations in the Middle East. They were ...

As the era of U.S. primacy comes to an end, academics and policymakers have quite naturally been debating what comes next. Will the emergence of a multipolar world prove inherently ...

Immediately after the United States attacked Iranian nuclear facilities on June 21, President Donald Trump declared the operation a “spectacular military success.” Since then, his administration has been searching for ...