Tag: Middle East and North Africa

It’s tempting to think that the joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran has dealt with the problem posed by Iran’s nuclear program. The Trump administration and Washington’s hawks are certainly trying ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, and a very happy birthday to our brilliant, infallible, and fun editor, Jenn Williams, who lets us be ourselves while also repeatedly saving ...

Following the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, U.S. President Donald Trump posted a message on Truth Social endorsing regime change in Iran. Since announcing a cease-fire this week that ...

A decade ago, Russia seemed to be having its moment in the Middle East. But from today’s perspective, that moment appears distinctly momentary. To the surprise of many, Moscow did ...

The Middle East is transforming before our eyes. While much of the global conversation fixates on the volleys of violence between Israel and Iran, a far more profound shift is ...

Washington’s June 21 strikes on Iran should finally put an end to one of the more tedious debates about U.S. President Donald Trump and his foreign policy: Is he an ...

The U.S. strikes against Iran on Saturday provoked a wide array of responses. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration made no effort to seek congressional authorization for the attacks on nuclear ...

In February 2003, as U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was arguing for a preemptive strike on Iraq, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer seemed to sum up the international community’s incredulity: “Excuse me, ...

In December 2015, under the bright lights of a Las Vegas auditorium, more than a dozen Republican presidential hopefuls took to the debate stage to brandish their hawkish foreign-policy credentials. ...

Israel’s relentless war on Iran is likely to fundamentally reshape the trajectory of the latter’s history. But this is not likely to be a regime change as it’s typically imagined, ...