Middle East & North Africa

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. A trader speaks with a stock market official beneath the electronic board at the Tehran stock exchange September 15, 2010. While U.S. diplomats were busy upping Iran's economic punishment over nuclear activities Washington fears are aimed at making a bomb, Iranian shares, which might have been expected to fall, have, instead, gone through the roof. Picture taken September 15, 2010. To match Feature IRAN-ECONOMY/BOURSE REUTERS/Caren Firouz (IRAN - Tags: BUSINESS) - GM1E69U0R0301

How the Iran hostage crisis shaped the US approach to sanctions

Kate Hewitt and Richard Nephew

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Iraqi soldiers stand guard near an election poster featuring pictures of Shi'ite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani (L), and slain clerics Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim (C) and Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr in the holy city of Najaf December 6, 2005. Iraqis will go to the polls December 15 to elect their first full, four-year parliament since the fall of Saddam Hussein. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish - RP2DSFIILWAB

Iraq’s failed uprising after the 1979 Iranian revolution

Monday, March 11, 2019

The Iranian flag flutters in front the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria March 4, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger - RC1A2FD12B40

America’s torch song for Tehran

Kenneth M Pollack

Friday, March 8, 2019

Soviet tanks roll homeward from Afghanistan October 17, 1986. REUTERS/Stringer BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE - GF2E51A0SKE03

How bad judgement calls brought a chain of blunders: Soviet responses to the Iranian revolution

Thursday, March 7, 2019

A woman walks down a hill to Port Louis June 6, 2008. REUTERS/Ed Harris (MAURITIUS) - GM1E4661HGX01

Africa’s tourism: A global destination for investment and entrepreneurship

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

A general view of phases 2-3 of the South Pars gas field in Assaluyeh seaport at the Persian Gulf about 1400 km (870 miles) south of Tehran, Iran May 27, 2006. Picture taken on May 27, 2006. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl - GM1DSSEFUIAA

What Iran’s 1979 revolution meant for US and global oil markets

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem March 3, 2019. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun - RC11FB562270

The end is nigh for Netanyahu

Monday, March 4, 2019

Morocco's Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri (R) and his Saudi counterpart Prince Saud al-Faisal sign an agreement during the 11th Moroccan-Saudi joint Commission in Rabat February 10, 2011. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz is alive and in "excellent shape," the Saudi foreign minister said on Thursday after Rumors about the king's health triggered a spike in the price of oil. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal (MOROCCO - Tags: POLITICS ROYALS) - GM1E72B057701

Morocco-Saudi relations: Trouble amongst royals?

Adel Abdel Ghafar and Anna L. Jacobs

Friday, March 1, 2019

A picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is displayed on a damaged structure at the entrance of al-Dukhaneya neighbourhood near Damascus, as civilians carry their belongings recovered from their homes after soldiers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad regained control of the area from rebel fighters October 7, 2014. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1EAA71PL001

Can Syria return to the regional stage?

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during the annual Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany February 17, 2019. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert - RC1F3CF15930

Iran’s foreign minister stays on—But with a difficult mandate

Suzanne Maloney

Thursday, February 28, 2019