Middle East and North Africa

Reducing Iran’s breakout time and restoring robust monitoring are the most urgent priorities. A return to the JCPOA can achieve these goals.

A full withdrawal from Afghanistan is a costly blunder and failure of leadership.

Doing so would be a death sentence for global nonproliferation efforts.

The country wants an end to sectarian strife. Can the leader of the Maronite church deliver?

The Abraham Accords are spurring Israel’s Arab entrepreneurs to bridge cultures.

As the United States leaves Afghanistan, the question of troops in the Middle East to support the Afghan mission looms large.

Veteran diplomat Nasser al-Qudwa could prompt a realignment within Palestinian politics.

Biden’s withdrawal announcement is meant to end a 20-year war, but Washington has been dragged back into conflicts before.

The country is imploding under America’s watch.

Experts and former diplomats want to see Biden pick up the pace on nominations to better compete with China on the world stage.

Chief negotiator Robert Malley begins to forge a compromise with both Iran and hard-liners at home.

Making nice after an alleged coup attempt obscures serious challenges, including water scarcity, a refugee crisis, and unhelpful neighbors.

This week’s attack on an Iranian enrichment facility has improved the country’s negotiating position.

Syrian government is using aid deliveries as a weapon, State Department reports.

There’s much more evidence of the monarch’s poor governance than a foreign conspiracy against him.

Unless it changes tack, the administration is about to make bad situations even worse.

It’s more likely to inflame nationalist sentiments than change anything on the ground.

A cycle of deadlocked elections has left the country without a functioning administration—and a foreign policy set on autopilot.

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