Center for Middle East Policy

American paratrooper cleans his gun at Army base camp in Beirut, Lebanon. Credit: Library of Congress

Highlights: Experts discuss the first-ever US military intervention in the Middle East

Thursday, November 21, 2019

People protest against increased gas price, on a highway in Tehran, Iran November 16, 2019. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY - RC2BCD9LS6UN

Why Iranians are revolting again

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

People protest against increased gas price, on a highway in Tehran, Iran November 16, 2019. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY - RC2CCD9U9AIN

Iranian protesters strike at the heart of the regime’s revolutionary legitimacy

Suzanne Maloney

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Demonstrators march during a protest against the country's ruling elite and rejecting the December presidential election in Algiers, Algeria November 15, 2019. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina - RC2RBD9D4SPJ

Algerians have been protesting for months. What’s changed?

Monday, November 18, 2019

Supporters of religious and political party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) wave flags and chant slogans during what participants call Azadi March (Freedom March) to protest the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan November 2, 2019. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro - RC14C39D0790

Protests in Pakistan could shake prime minister’s mandate

Monday, November 18, 2019

A general view of the trial is seen at a military court in Tunis July 19, 2012. Former Interior Minister Rafik Belhaj Kacem was sentenced to 15 years in jail and Ben Ali's security chief Ali Seriati was given 20 years over the killing of protesters in the capital Tunis and the towns of Sousse, Nabeul, Bizerte and Zaghouan as a popular uprising spread through the country early last year. Ben Ali fled with his family to Saudi Arabia. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi (TUNISIA - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW) - GM1E87J1QML01

Reforming Tunisia’s military courts

Hamza Mighri and Sharan Grewal

Thursday, November 7, 2019

A smoke cloud rises moments after an air strike on the compound of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the Idlib region of Syria in a still image from video October 26, 2019. Video picture taken October 26, 2019. U.S. Department of Defense/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC179130A4B0

What we can learn about US intelligence from the Baghdadi raid

Eyal Tsir Cohen and Eliora Katz

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Beirut 1958: How America’s wars in the Middle East began

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People walk on the street, where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his caliphate back in 2014, in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, October 27, 2019. REUTERS/Abdullah Rashid - RC1468923010

Worried about an Islamic State comeback? Here’s why that’s unlikely.

Daniel L. Byman

Monday, November 4, 2019

Demonstrators wave Lebanese flags as the pass by Lebanese soldiers during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon, October 31, 2019. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic - RC116FDD2CA0

With Lebanon making fragile progress, now is the wrong time to pull US assistance

Jeffrey Feltman

Friday, November 1, 2019