Middle East & North Africa

China's President Xi Jinping (L) and Moroccan King, Mohammed VI, wave during a welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of People in Beijing, China, May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Expanding Sino–Maghreb Relations Morocco and Tunisia

Yahia H. Zoubir

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak attends a meeting with Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani at the presidential palace in Cairo December 11, 2010. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo

Hosni Mubarak’s risk-averse reign brought Egypt to calamity

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Solving the civil war in Libya

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Palestinian demonstrators take part in a rally in support of President Mahmoud Abbas and against the U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan, in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

Trump’s Middle East peace plan: What’s there to be upset about?

Friday, February 21, 2020

A woman walks past parliamentary election campaign posters at the end of the parliamentary election day in Tehran, Iran February 20, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Nazanin Tabatabaee via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Iran’s parliamentary elections occur amid unprecedented pressures

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Thursday, February 20, 2020

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a meeting in Jerusalem, Friday, October 18, 2019. Sebastian Scheiner/Pool via REUTERS *** Local Caption *** - RC15280D3A20

Israel’s fury over UN settlement ‘blacklist’ is only the beginning

Monday, February 17, 2020.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations in New York, U.S., February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

The real threat to Palestine is a crisis of leadership

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Internally displaced Syrians from western Aleppo countryside, ride on the back of a truck with belongings in Hazano near Idlib, Syria, February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Turkey’s unpalatable choices in Syria

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive a ceremony marking the formal launch of the TurkStream pipeline which will carry Russian natural gas to southern Europe through Turkey, in Istanbul, Turkey, January 8, 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RC2QBE9PIRVM

The Idlib debacle is a reality check for Turkish-Russian relations

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

(right) Meets with King Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, on board USS Quincy (CA-71) in the Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, on 14 February 1945. The King is speaking to the interpreter, Colonel William A. Eddy, USMC. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, USN, the President's Aide and Chief of Staff, is at left. Note ornate carpet on the ship's deck, and life raft mounted on the side of the 5/38 twin gun mount in the background. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

75 years after a historic meeting on the USS Quincy, US-Saudi relations are in need of a true re-think

Monday, February 10, 2020