From Turkey’s perspective, post-Bashar al-Assad Syria presented two immediate challenges: Kurdish autonomy along its southern ...

That assessment provides a useful frame for Libya today. Libya, like Venezuela, is a resource-rich country, producing a ...

This exhibition features the work of 12 Kuwaiti artists whose work moves between distilled abstraction and immersive inquiry, ...

The Islamic Republic as we know it cannot endure. However, its collapse or transformation does not guarantee liberation. What ...

In the aftermath of the 12-Day War, both Israeli and US officials were insistent that regime change in Iran was not one of the objectives — notwithstanding some mostly symbolic actions by Israel that ...

Last week, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei effectively greenlit mass killings to save his regime. His message was blunt: ...

Iran is at a critical juncture. The clerical establishment is confronting the most sustained and deadly unrest it has faced ...

The SDF and the armed factions that assumed control in Damascus also have more than a decade of tensions and hostilities ...

The final days of 2025 marked a turning point in the Middle East, as competition between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Yemen spilled out into the open. Tensions between the two ...

At some point, most people will likely have seen or received a school report that reads something along these lines: “Commendable progress but has the potential to do better.” The latest report from ...