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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 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 ...

Alex Mahoney is the Acting Office Director for Middle East, North Africa, and Europe (MENAE) in the new Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID ...

Ambassador Rugh is the Edward R. Murrow Visiting Professor of Public Diplomacy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Between 1995 and 2003 he was President and CEO of AMIDEAST.

The second Trump administration has been pushing to expand the Abraham Accords beyond their initial signatories since coming to power. Progress on bringing in additional Arab states faltered while ...