Middle East and North Africa

Tehran’s numbers don’t add up. They seem to be exaggerated to pressure Biden for sanctions relief.

From Morocco to Rwanda, governments and their intelligence services have allegedly used spyware to target everyone including opponents, monarchs, and foreign leaders.

If Westerners are shocked at political developments in Tunisia, it’s because they described it as a straightforward success for too long.

Foreign powers should condemn Kais Saied’s power grab to halt long-term damage to the nascent democracy.

After years of closely cooperating on everything from Iran to oil, the Arab Gulf is entering a moment of wariness.

From piracy to the Ever Given, colonialism left hard scars.

In some Afghan towns, women are fleeing ahead of insurgent takeovers.

At the White House on Monday, the Iraqi leader needs a guarantee that Biden won’t use Iraq’s independence as a pawn in negotiations with Iran.

Foreign Policy asked nine global experts for their takes on the administration’s agenda.

A journalist hacked by Pegasus says he will survive, but Indian democracy may not.

The Israeli prime minister seems to be charting a new course aimed at reducing tensions with the Biden administration in advance of a White House visit.

Unlike Trump, Israel’s former leader never built a personality cult—and doesn’t have enough diehard fans to keep his election fraud myth alive.

Israeli leaders press for legal measures after the ice cream company announced it would halt sales in Jewish settlements.

Washington should refuse a security waiver and block $300 million in military assistance to Egypt until Cairo cleans up its act on human rights.

The collapse of Lebanon is intensifying a conflict in the Mediterranean that has mostly taken place in the shadows.

Meth is even more profitable than heroin—and is turbocharging the insurgency.

The backbone of Israel’s support in the United States is a group of evangelical Christians, but their power is threatened by the changing of the political guard.