Despite stumbling over two major obstacles, normalization with Israel and the Western Sahara dispute, relations between the United States and Algeria are advancing along a path of cautious but ...

Dear Colleagues, Advised by his doctor to get out of damp, cold England, composer Gustav Holst went to Algeria for time off in April 1908. Oil was struck that year in the Middle East, in Persia.

On the night before the trip, a short message arrived from the organizers: “There are security procedures and some permits that have not yet been completed. We may have to wait beside the base ...

At a restaurant in downtown Moscow, Iraqi national Abbas al-Manasir was scrolling through his phone when he noticed a glowing advertisement with a QR code.  The link led him to a Russian-language ...

While the Abraham Accords marked five years this week amid familiar debates in the Gulf and Levant, another story is unfolding further north. From Baku to Tirana, Muslim-majority states in Eastern ...

In Lebanon, words can be as combustible as rockets. Six of them: “ideology is more dangerous than weapons,” were enough to ignite a political firestorm. They came from Member of Parliament Paula ...

Dear Colleagues, Iran’s deeply unpopular clerical regime apparently wants to improve the relationship between rulers and the ...

For many Yemenis, America was a leap into the unknown. Some disguised themselves among passengers, others slipped into the dark confines of cargo holds, and all eventually found themselves ...

The Israeli airstrikes on Hamas leaders in Qatar jolted the region, and beyond. For the past two years, Israel has struck targets in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and even deep inside Iran. But Tuesday’s ...

On May 25, 1981, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was founded in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. At its third summit the following year, in November 1982, the bloc’s Supreme Council approved ...

For the first time, the conflict between Israel and Hamas has pierced the heart of the Gulf. An Israeli airstrike on a building in Doha has redrawn the map of the war and thrust Qatar, ...

The sounds of explosions are no longer confined to Gaza or southern Lebanon. In Doha – where Qatar has long hosted rounds of negotiations between Israel and Hamas – Israeli warplanes ...