The glass-half-full view is that postwar violence has been limited and President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former jihadist whose ...

After more than a decade of wars, from Syria to Gaza, the Middle East is exhausted by conflict. Is it ready to find another ...

Many american presidents try to ignore the Middle East. Barack Obama wanted to pivot to Asia; Joe Biden told advisers to keep the region off his desk. But it is not so easily ignored. The chaos of the ...

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria in December 2024 was a major blow to Russian influence and power projection in the Middle East. Russia’s lack of significant response — at least publicly — to ...

The idea that Middle East peace cannot and should not advance without a formal agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is outdated and demonstrably untrue. Indeed, it has done little ...