Middle East and North Africa

Elections in May will be the first since 2006—a remarkable but risky gambit.

Talon’s procedural reforms have hollowed out fair elections and are a master class in entrenching autocracy.

Moscow and Damascus have evaded all accountability, but Biden can build a coalition to change that.

A survivor of regime atrocities explains why the international community must act.

As Netanyahu forms his government, the parallels between the politics that led to a strike on Iraq’s nuclear facility and those that could result in targeting Iran today are clear.

In Lebanon’s absurd economy, money’s value depends on whom you ask.

Only three top State Department officials have been allowed to travel abroad. That’s no way to preserve U.S. interests.

Beijing is making moves to ensure regional dominance in Southeast Asia and oil supplies from the Middle East. It could be shooting itself in the foot.

U.S. diplomacy is back in West Africa—but the United States is also back to its old counterterrorism playbook.

The Caesar Act isn’t hurting Assad; it’s harming civilians.

The Suez Canal blockade is a reminder that sea freight still keeps the global economy running—and leaders and consumers ignore it at their peril.

With election results deadlocked, an Arab-led party is seen as a possible swing faction.

Director Skye Fitzgerald’s Oscar-nominated documentary “Hunger Ward” chronicles Yemeni health care workers as they wrestle with famine and violence.

Republican districts stand to benefit most from the economic windfall that a revived JCPOA would bring.

Two new books examine how an isolated state managed to expand its diplomatic horizons.

The Biden administration rebuffed European pleas to lift some sanctions in its first weeks in office.