Middle East

The Abraham Accords didn’t just seal a wary detente. It cemented Israel’s first regional partnership.

Congressional overseers are livid that the administration made major policy changes without prior formal consultations.

On Taiwan, Yemen, and Cuba, the Trump administration is laying political land mines for Biden on its way out the door.

China and Russia are spreading their vaccines—and forging new ties—to some of Washington’s closest allies.

A decade after Arabs started a regional revolution, it’s the neighboring continent that will never be the same.

Five articles from the past year that explain how the quagmire in Yemen sparked fierce political battles in Washington as millions teeter on the brink of starvation.

Moving quickly to resurrect the JCPOA, as Biden seems set to do, would start his presidency with a hugely divisive controversy.

Ten years after the start of the Arab Spring, it’s time to accept that the revolution may never return.

As the Trump administration winds down, Riyadh is trying—and failing—to cut its losses on a failed regional policy.

But the vote laid down a marker for the incoming Biden administration on Democrats’ opposition to Middle Eastern arms sales and U.S. involvement in the conflict in Yemen.

Branding Saudi Arabia a pariah state would be counterproductive to regional stability.

How sanctions against the Syrian regime are forcing the country into famine.

Saudi Arabia’s recent social reforms are more about earning international attention than improving the lives of its citizens at home.

On U.S. foreign policy, there’s no going back to the status quo.

One thing is clear: The two leaders are bracing for an ill wind emanating from the new White House.

Moscow helped organize an international conference to help jump-start Syria’s reconstruction—but hardly anyone came.

He was successful because only an iconoclastic president could have rejected false assumptions and failed strategies.