Middle East & North Africa

Pictures of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz are seen during the launching of National Industrial Development and Logistics Program (NIDLP) in Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia January 28, 2019. REUTERS/Faisal al-Nasser - RC196F7D4850

As the Saudis host international summitry, their Yemen problem isn’t going away

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Students raise their hands as they attend class and eat a meal distributed as part of a World Food Programme (WFP)-run project to provide healthy meals to students and to raise awareness of good eating habits, at Hofa Al-Mazar school in the city of Irbid, Jordan, April 26, 2016. REUTERS/ Muhammad Hamed - GF10000396485

Preparing youth for the future of work: What can we learn from Jordan?

Patrick Hannahan and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Friday, May 24, 2019

A Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) fighter rides in a military vehicle at the Iraqi-Syrian border near al-Qaim, Iraq, November 26, 2018. Picture taken November 26, 2018. REUTERS/Alaa al-Marjani - RC13847779F0

How US-Iran tensions could disrupt Iraq’s fragile peace

Thursday, May 23, 2019

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner smiles while listening to U.S. President Donald Trump talk as the president meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC188FAA0870

How Trump’s approach to the Middle East ignores the past, the future, and the human condition

Shibley Telhami

Monday, May 20, 2019

A Southern Popular Resistance fighter fires a weapon mounted on a truck during clashes with Houthi fighters in Yemen's southern city of Aden May 3, 2015. Between 40-50 Arab special forces soldiers arrived in Aden on Sunday and deployed alongside local fighters against the Houthi militia, a spokesman for the Southern Popular Resistance said. REUTERS/Stringer TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF10000082449

In Yemen, the Houthi strategy has promise and risk

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Palestinian boys sit atop the ruins of a house that witnesses said was destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war last summer, in the east of Gaza City May 12, 2015. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF10000092322

What we can learn from yet another round of conflict in Gaza

Eyal Tsir Cohen

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in Gaza May 5, 2019. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem - RC18154DCF90

Why Gaza hasn’t erupted into all-out war

Daniel L. Byman

Friday, May 10, 2019

A prison guard looks through a small window at the El Harrach prison in Algiers July 14, 2010. Algeria is ready to open its prisons to international inspection to counter allegations that inmates are abused, Farouk Ksentini, chairman of the National Consultative Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, a government-backed human rights body, said on Wednesday. To match Interview ALGERIA-PRISONS/ REUTERS/Louafi Larbi (ALGERIA - Tags: CRIME LAW) - GM1E67F02LF01

Unveiling Algeria’s dark side

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Containers are seen at a port terminal in Bizerte, Tunisia, March 27, 2018. Picture taken March 27, 2018. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi - RC1740C51860

MENA’s economic integration in an era of fragmentation

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz meets with Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and Iraqi ministers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia April 17, 2019. Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC1A0CFF1D20

GCC News Roundup: Saudi’s King Salman visits Bahrain, Qatar hosts Taliban and US peace talks (April 1-30)

Thursday, May 2, 2019