Middle East & North Africa

Smoke is seen following a fire at Aramco facility in the eastern city of Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia, September 14, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer - RC18BDE58360

Around the halls: Brookings experts react to the attack on Saudi oil facilities

Samantha Gross, Suzanne Maloney, Bruce Riedel, and Daniel L. Byman

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

The president is more combative on Twitter than he is to initiating military action...He has an excellent political radar and he recognizes that there is no appetite among Americans for another costly protracted military intervention in the Middle East.

Suzanne Maloney Financial Times Monday, September 16, 2019

Delegates walk in front a poster of prominent attendees of the 1955 Asian-African Conference during a historical walk commemorating the 60-year anniversary of the Asian-African Summit, on Asia Afrika street in Bandung, Indonesia April 24, 2015. Leaders of Asian and African nations are in Jakarta to mark the 60th anniversary of a conference that made a developing-world stand against colonialism and led to the Cold War era's non-aligned movement.

The Global South and development assistance

Chukwuka Onyekwena and Mma Amara Ekeruche

Monday, September 16, 2019

Supporters of detained presidential candidate and Tunisian media mogul Nabil Karoui react after unofficial results of the Tunisian presidential election in Tunis, Tunisia, September 15, 2019. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed - RC173E0E8170

Political outsiders sweep Tunisia’s presidential elections

Monday, September 16, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Israel September 10, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RC1ABFF59380

Israeli elections redux: What you need to know

Friday, September 13, 2019

It’s credible that the Iranians had something to do with this...We’ll have to wait and see how they’ll [the administration] marshal the evidence.

Suzanne Maloney Reuters Friday, September 13, 2019

What is happening in Yemen?

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM AST

Turkish villager Hasan Dogruyol (R) carries a sack of cotton as he works in a cotton field near the border town of Reyhanli on the Turkish-Syrian border, in Hatay province, November 4, 2012. Despite the conflict on the Syrian side of the border, cotton harvest is still underway in Turkey's southern border province of Hatay. During early October, the Turkish military launched a retaliatory strike on Syria after a mortar bomb fired from Syrian soil landed in the countryside in Hatay. Some Syrian refugees work at cotton fields together with Turkish villagers in the border region as cottons pickers. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY - Tags: AGRICULTURE POLITICS) - GM1E8B509U401

Syrian refugees in Turkey need jobs

Kemal Kirişci and Gökçe Uysal

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

U.S. soldiers from the Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment aim their rifles as they conduct a live firing exercise January 18, 2003 near Bagram air base in Afghanistan. About 70 soldiers participated in the exercise to hone their combat skills. - PBEAHUOSFAT

Eighteen years on: The war on terror comes of age

Daniel L. Byman

Combating Terrorism Center September 2019

Supporters of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden shout anti-American slogans, after the news of his death, during a rally in Quetta May 2, 2011. Bin Laden was killed in a U.S. helicopter raid on a mansion near the Pakistani capital Islamabad early on Monday, officials said, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. U.S. officials said bin Laden was found in the million-dollar compound in the military garrison town of Abbottabad, 60 km (35 miles) north of Islamabad. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E75300AX01

Al-Qaida today, 18 years after 9/11

Tuesday, September 10, 2019