As Turkey intensifies its military campaign against Syrian Kurdish fighters, it is tempting to blame the violence on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to bar citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries has provided, up until now, the main barometer of how his...
Yemen is no stranger to crisis. Exposed to a regional proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, plagued by an entrenched Al-Qaeda affiliate, and divided by...
The recent coup attempt in Libya, led by General Khalifa Haftar, has finally pierced the illusion that the country’s dysfunctional central government, whose...
When President Richard Nixon visited Syria in 1974, Syrians lined the streets of Damascus to greet him. Not all were delighted by the visit of the American...
The aggrieved supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi and the jubilant protesters who pushed the military to remove him from office have...
As the United States struggles to understand last September’s attack on its diplomatic mission in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans,...
In the wake of an attack that killed 16 security officers in the Sinai Peninsula in August, the Egyptian military has ratcheted up the pressure against...
Egypt is not the only place where the bright hopes of the Arab Spring are fading. From attacks against Western governments to ethnic clashes in remote desert...
Although Libyans are now celebrating the first anniversary of the revolution that toppled Moammar Gadhafi, they are increasingly frustrated with their new...
With the creation of a new government, Libya’s leaders should finally be able to focus on organizing the transition from the authoritarian state that...
In the months since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, his successors have signaled a shift in foreign policy by reaching out to former...
In the days since the Feb. 17 revolution against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, opposition forces in Benghazi have formed a Transitional National Council...
When Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered his military on March 18 to fire on peaceful protesters calling for his resignation, he sealed his fate. A...
The fervor for change that inspired revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt is now rocking Bahrain. But the recent uprising in Manama differs from the mass protests...
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon submitted his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip to his Likud Party for approval. He lost. The choices now before him...