Tag: Middle East and North Africa

“We are working to save our Druze brothers,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on July 16 as Israel targeted the Syrian military’s headquarters in Damascus. Netanyahu’s comments came after ...

In June, as the bombs were falling on Tehran, a curious thing happened: Iran’s crude oil exports briefly spiked. Despite being bombed, Iran was not deterred from shipping oil—nor were ...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in recent months has emerged as one of the fiercest internal critics of his country’s war in Gaza. Olmert has repeatedly excoriated Israeli Prime ...

Rocket-propelled grenades. Swarms of boats. Arson. Hostage-taking. After a lull in their violence against Western-linked merchant ships in the Red Sea, the Houthis have dramatically announced their return. They have ...

On July 11, the New York Times Magazine ran a deeply reported piece on how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has prolonged the war in Gaza for political reasons. In ...

In the thorny debate over how to handle Syria, U.S. President Donald Trump has surprisingly emerged as a realist, a pragmatist, and a man of nuance. Since the December 2024 ...

The aesthetics are compelling. Black and white photos of a Tehran University lecture hall with men and women seated side by side wearing the best of 1950s European fashions. Young ...

One of my colleagues who often has a way with words described the recent debate about bomb damage to Iran’s three main nuclear sites as “asinine.” It was certainly that, ...

“I want to swim in Lake Tiberias,” then-Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad told U.S. President Bill Clinton in March 2000, just months before his death. It was a striking remark during ...

There is an ongoing debate about just how much of a setback Iran’s nuclear program experienced during its recent conflict with Israel and the United States. But there is little ...