For much of the past several years, normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel seemed almost inevitable — the logical next ...

The clerical dictatorship has an expiration date, which is now near. One way to think of an accelerated timetable is to ask ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s identity, leadership dynamics, and regional posture have all shaped its response to the recent ...

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

What do these developments mean for the country’s political transition? This briefing featured Charles Lister, Senior Fellow ...

Media and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are hyping the idea that President Trump’s attempt to gain sovereign ...

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

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

Maria J. Stephan is a strategic planner with the US Department of State and co-author, with Erica Chenoweth, of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. She is the ...

After 10 months of US-mediated talks failed to achieve an integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces into Syria’s transitional state, hostilities erupted in early January. US diplomacy stepped in to ...

Alex Vatanka is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute. He specializes in Middle Eastern regional security affairs with a particular focus on Iran. He was formerly a Senior Analyst at Jane’s ...