Tag: Middle East and North Africa

When Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled late last year, it looked like a golden opportunity for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. For more than a decade, the war next ...

In scale and scope, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are facing the world’s largest humanitarian and human rights crises. The numbers are staggering. In Sudan, more than ...

Israel carried out a strike targeting Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, marking a major escalation in its war against the militant group. This was seemingly the first time ...

The first week of March featured a moment of dark political comedy worthy of Veep creator Armando Iannucci. In a scene that felt scripted for satire, the United States became ...

In just nine months, the Trump administration has laid waste to the development landscape, dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and slashing nearly the entire U.S. foreign aid ...

Later this month, Syria’s Ahmed al-Sharaa will appear before the U.N. General Assembly—the first Syrian leader to do so since 1967. The world will be watching to see how he ...

When an international group of genocide scholars issued a resolution Sunday saying that the Israeli military’s nearly two-year offensive in Gaza meets the definition of genocide, the denial from the ...

France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, known collectively as the E3, have triggered the “snapback” process against Iran, starting a 30-day countdown after which all U.N. sanctions lifted under the ...

On Aug. 26, U.S. special envoy Tom Barrack revealed that Lebanon would soon present its plan to convince Hezbollah to give up its arms after some 40 years of maintaining ...

Some people around the world, including Jews traditionally supportive of Israel, are asking or being asked whether Israel any longer has a right to exist. The prevalence of these private ...