Middle East and North Africa

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.

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.