Middle East & North Africa

Confiscated opium is seen on display during a ceremony concluding anti-narcotics manoeuvres in Zahedan, 1,605 kilometers (1,003 miles) southeast of Tehran May 20, 2009. The head of the U.N. crime agency praised Iran during a visit on Wednesday for curbing the flow of smuggled heroin from Afghanistan and helping keep the drug off Western streets. Picture taken May 20, 2009. REUTERS/Caren Firouz (IRAN CRIME LAW POLITICS SOCIETY) - GM1E55L1AOY01

Out with the old, in with the old: Iran’s revolution, drug policies, and global drug markets

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Bradley S. Porter

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Pro-Khomeini demonstration in Mashhad - 1978. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pro-Khomeini_demonstration_in_Mashhad_-_1978.jpg

Watch: Experts look back on Iran’s 1979 revolution and the US response

Suzanne Maloney and Bruce Riedel

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Head shot Shah of Iran, Washington, D.C.. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_shot_of_Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi.tif

What Iran’s revolution looked like from inside the shah’s palace

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein addresses the eigth anniversary of the Great Victory Day August 8. In his address marking the ceasefire in the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war, Saddam rejected Western government accusations that he had spent a fortune on building palaces for himself while his people enjured poverty. He made no mention of his country's oil-for-food deal with the U.N. whose implementation the U.S. approved on Wednesday. - PBEAHUMWIBM

What Iran’s revolution meant for Iraq

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Fighter jets fly over Iranian soldiers parading during the Zolfaghar-2 war games near the Iran-Afghan border on November 2. The war games involved 200,000 army troops, 70,000 Revolutionary Guards, armoured and artillery units as well as commando forces and naval units, supported by the air force and the army air corps in the border areas covering 50,000 sq km (19,300 sq miles).JDP - RP1DRIGJPSAA

How Iran’s regional ambitions have developed since 1979

Itamar Rabinovich

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Demonstrators hold pictures of Lebanese Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (R) and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (C) during Jerusalem Day demonstration in Tehran October 20, 2006. REUTERS/Caren Firouz (IRAN) - GM1DTTJIUTAA

The Iranian revolution and its legacy of terrorism

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Israeli national flag covers a soldier from Ukraine's honour guards during a welcoming ceremony for Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in Kiev, Ukraine, September 27, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich - D1BEUDSPOQAA

Iran’s revolution, 40 years on: Israel’s reverse periphery doctrine

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout slogans at a rally against an Egyptian court's decision to sentence Mursi and other leaders to death, as they march under street decoration to mark the holy month of Ramadan in Al Haram street near Giza square, south of Cairo, Egypt June 19, 2015. Mursi will appeal against a conviction for violence, kidnapping and torture imposed by a court over the killing of protesters, his lawyers were quoted as saying by state media on Thursday. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - GF10000133229

What Iran’s 1979 revolution meant for the Muslim Brotherhood

Shadi Hamid and Sharan Grewal

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Foresight Africa: Global youth population projections

Charts of the Week: Africa’s changing demographics

Friday, January 18, 2019

A group of Tunisian migrants arrive on a rubber boat after being rescued by the Tunisian coast guard off the coast of Bizerte, Tunisia October 12, 2017. Picture taken October 12, 2017. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi - RC15BE82E6B0

Tunisia’s migration to the north

Thursday, January 17, 2019