Middle East and North Africa

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.

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.