Middle East & North Africa

-PHOTO TAKEN 03APR03- The White House is seen from the top of the Washington Monument April 3, 2003. - PBEAHUOQMBK

Watch: What do Americans think of Trump’s foreign policy?

Shibley Telhami

Friday, December 1, 2017

President Roosevelt meets with Saudi King ibn Saud

5 takeaways from Bruce Riedel’s talk on the U.S.-Saudi relationship

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

An aerial view of the coast of the Red Sea is pictured through the window of an airplane near Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt November 1, 2016. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - S1BEUKJXJNAB

How Obama and Trump left a vacuum in the Middle East

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Lights across the earth are pictured in this NASA handout satellite image obtained by Reuters December 5, 2012. This new image of the Earth at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of EarthÕs land surface and islands. REUTERS/NASA/Handout. (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - TM3E8C51C4001

The new geopolitics

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Egyptian relatives and friends carry the coffin of the officer Khaled al-Maghrabi, who was killed during a suicide bomb attack on an army checkpoint in Sinai, during his funeral in his hometown Toukh, Al Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt 8 July, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - RC195508E300

Misunderstanding the victims of the Sinai massacre

Monday, November 27, 2017

Iraqi forces vehicles are seen after they captured Rawa town, the last remaining town under Islamic State control, Iraq November 17, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer - RC1D9A853FC0

How to avoid an ISIS 2.0 in Iraq

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Sara Allawi

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Syrian refugee children queue as they head towards their classroom at a school in Mount Lebanon, October 7, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir - S1AEUFPGPUAA

There are no global solutions in education

Tamar Manuelyan Atinc and Lindsay Read

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump takes his seat before his speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC126746CCF0

Is America a bad wingman in the Middle East?

Daniel L. Byman

Monday, November 13, 2017

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, attends the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia October 24, 2017. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed - RC14B99CF4A0

Muhammed bin Salman and the push to establish a new Saudi political order

Adel Abdel Ghafar

Thursday, November 9, 2017

People walk next to a poster depicting Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, who has resigned from his post, along a street in the mainly Sunni Beirut neighbourhood of Tariq al-Jadideh in Beirut, Lebanon November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir - RC1556EE7010

Hariri’s resignation and why the Middle East is on edge, again

Tuesday, November 7, 2017