Middle East

And Saudi Arabia may well stand to lose the most.

After decades of living in denial, the country has hit rock bottom—but glimmers of a brighter future are starting to emerge.

After a record seizure, Italian police blamed the terror group. It’s more likely the Syrian regime has a hand in production and trafficking.

The Lebanese public wants answers and accountability for last week’s port explosion—not scapegoats.

Trump’s Iran gambit is sweeping, punitive, and has little chance of success.

Despite the Islamic State’s retreat, Assyrians fear for their security in the Nineveh Plains. They need stronger support from Washington and Baghdad.

Mustafa al-Kadhimi is better placed than many of his predecessors to cement the Iraqi state’s authority, but independent armed groups are pushing back.

The Sanders wing has scored a lot of victories in the Democratic platform—but didn’t get all it wanted on Israel.

Lebanese people, rocked by a massive port explosion, are fed up with incompetence.

A pair of gigantic blasts that obliterated Beirut’s port and smashed the city center is the last thing we needed.

Lebanon’s government says “highly explosive materials” were stored near blast scene.

Middle Eastern regimes increasingly aren’t just targeting dissidents—they’re going after their entire families.

The only political system the country has ever known is collapsing, and it’s never coming back.

The flow of remittances from Lebanon and the Gulf to Africa and Asia has come to a sudden, and devastating, stop.

Israel could finally become a partisan issue in Washington—but only if Democrats put their money where their mouth is.

King Abdullah is young and healthy, but it’s never too early to introduce the country’s next ruler, Crown Prince Hussein, to key U.S. officials.

A Russian-Chinese veto threatens lifesaving aid to starving Syrians—but Moscow doesn’t care what anyone thinks anymore.

Turkey is standing in the wreckage of a foreign-policy adventure with no discernible strategy.