North African states are turning long-standing diplomatic relationships into new opportunities for leverage, using migration ...

The reverberations of Israel’s strike on the Hamas negotiating team in Doha yesterday are still rippling across the globe and ...

For years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader and ultimate powerbroker, has been insisting to his people that ...

On August 28, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany triggered the “snapback” process under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal — also known as the JCPOA — giving Tehran 30 days to negotiate a pathway that ...

Over the summer, five Western allies announced their readiness to recognize a Palestinian state during this year’s annual United Nations General Assembly meetings. Notably, two of these countries — ...

Don’t miss DC’s Art All Night festival at the Middle East Institute on Saturday, September 13, from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM. The late-night open house features MEI's new gallery e ...

Ross Harrison and Mohsen Milani—two leading experts on Iranian strategy—join Brian for a conversation about the evolution of the Islamic Republic's foreign policy. Both draw on insights from their ...

The December 2020 Moroccan-Israeli normalization deal has evolved from a vehicle enabling Morocco to gain long-sought U.S. recognition of its claims on Western Sahara to a broader strategic ...

Ebrahim Raisi, the eighth president of Iran, has taken over at a time when the Islamic Republic is facing a series of major potential crises. Over the next several decades, these crises could have ...

Morocco's phosphorus fertilizer industry, with its massive production capacity and international reach, has transformed the kingdom into a gatekeeper of global food supply chains. Morocco's centrality ...

There is a new and little noticed geostrategic alliance on the rise. India, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have had surface-level, transactional relations for a long time. However, last ...

Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 was about maximizing power. Moscow aims to turn the Black Sea into a Russian lake to advance its national interest far and wide. For its part, NATO has ...