Iran

Iran's and U.S.' flags are seen printed on paper in this illustration taken January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Reviving the JCPOA is the better alternative — but can it be made sustainable?

May 2022

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr shake hands with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in Najaf, Iraq January 6, 2022. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

Muqtada al-Sadr’s alliance: An opportunity for Iraq, the US, and the region

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Smoke billows from a Saudi Aramco's petroleum storage facility after an attack in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia March 26, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

Yemen: Peace at last?

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Enrique Mora and Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani wait for the start of a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, Austria December 3, 2021. EU Delegation in Vienna/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

Iran’s nuclear aspirations

Suzanne Maloney and Fred Dews

Friday, February 18, 2022

FILE PHOTO: A drone aircraft is put on display at an exhibition at an unidentified location in Yemen in this undated handout photo released by the Houthi Media Office July 9, 2019. Houthi Media Office/Handout

Yemen war spreads to the UAE

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Members of the Iraqi predominantly Shia Muslim Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) parade symbolic coffins at Baghdad's Tahrir Square during a rally organized to mark the second anniversary of the United States airstrikes that targeted weapons depots and command centres of the Iran-backed Hezbollah Brigades. The targeted paramilitary group, which constitutes part of the PMF, suffered dozens of casualties in the attacks that took place in Al-Qa'im, an Iraqi town located near the Syrian border. 12/29/2021, Ameer Al Mohammedaw/dpa

New vulnerabilities for Iraq’s resilient Popular Mobilization Forces

Ranj Alaaldin and Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, February 3, 2022

Houthi supporters demonstrate against Saudi-led air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen January 21, 2022. REUTERS/Adel Al-Khadher

The Houthis have won in Yemen: What next?

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

British Minister of State for Middle East, North Africa and North America James Cleverly, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pose for a photo at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, Germany January 20, 2022. Kay Nietfeld/Pool via REUTERS

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — January 2022

Monday, January 31, 2022

A Taliban fighter stands guard at a checkpoint during a snowfall in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 3, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara

The proxy wars in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Pakistan

Bruce Riedel and Sajjan Gohel

NATO DEEP Dive

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Enrique Mora and Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani and delegations wait for the start of a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, Austria December 17, 2021. EU Delegation in Vienna/EEAS/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

Why bombing Iran is (still) a bad idea

Bruce Riedel and Annelle R. Sheline

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gesture during a rally commemorating the annual Hezbollah Martyrs' Day in Nabatieh, Lebanon, November 11, 2021. REUTERS/Aziz Taher

Is Hezbollah overplaying its hand inside Lebanon?

Stephanie T. Williams

Friday, November 19, 2021

File photo dated March 25, 2003 of United States President George W. Bush (R) speaks next to US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (C) and US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz (L) during a visit at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Donald Rumsfeld, the acerbic architect of the Iraq war and a master Washington power player who served as US secretary of defense for two presidents, has died at the age of 88. Photo by Alex Wong/Pool via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Reflections on the long-term repercussions of September 11 for US policy in the Middle East

Itamar Rabinovich

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

The flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) is pictured from the Dowqarun border crossing between Iran and Afghanistan, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran August 29, 2021. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Will the Taliban regime survive?

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden SPEAKS with Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Treat Iraq’s Iran-aligned militias like ISIS

Friday, July 30, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden greets Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

What will US combat forces withdrawal mean for Iraq?

Ranj Alaaldin and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, July 29, 2021

Iraqi President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi meet with King Abdullah II of Jordan and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in Baghdad, Iraq, June 27, 2021. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily

Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan: A new partnership 30 years in the making?

Katherine Harvey and Bruce Riedel

Friday, July 2, 2021

US Secretary of Defence William Perry (R), accompanied by the Saudi Ambassador to the US., Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud (L), survey the bomb site outside the heavily damaged apartment at the Khobar Towers housing complex for U.S. military personnel in Dhahran June 29. Nineteen American servicemen were killed, and several hundred others were injured when a bomb exploded outside the bulding on June 25.

Remembering the Khobar Towers bombing

Monday, June 21, 2021

President Jimmy Carter and the Middle East: Reexamining his legacy forty years later

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

FBI Director Louis Freeh has had the Khobar Towers bombing case reassignedto federal prosecutors in Virginia, over strong objections from U.S.Attorney Wilma Lewis, according to reports in both U.S. News and WorldReport, and Time magazine published on March 23, 2001. U.S. News said Freehtook the unusual step of reassigning the case because he had grownfrustrated by missteps in the investigation of the bombing of the U.S.military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemembers. The complex is shown after the June, 1996 attack. REUTERS/Dept.RC/SV

The deadly legacy of Khobar Towers

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, June 10, 2021

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.A security official stands in front of the Bushehr nuclear reactor, 1,200 km (746 miles) south of Tehran, August 21, 2010. Iran began fuelling its first nuclear power plant on Saturday, a potent symbol of its growing regional sway and rejection of international sanctions designed to prevent it building a nuclear bomb. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS ENERGY)

From the Iran nuclear deal to a Middle East Zone?

Thursday, May 27, 2021