If there’s a silver lining to Israel’s impending annexation of the West Bank, it’s that it will force the world confront more directly the reality of what Israel has been doing in the occupied territories.
Donald Trump withdrew from the multilateral nuclear deal with Iran, known as the JCPOA, in May 2018, and reinstated sanctions against the country.
Two years ago, on May 8, 2018, the Trump administration withdrew unilaterally from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly called the Iran nuclear deal, and then imposed “maximum pressure” sanctions on Iran.
U.S. primacy increasingly no longer reflects the realities in a region where traditional American partners no longer concern themselves with finding common cause with Washington.
The American obsession with Iran has led to a series of policy failures throughout the past four decades. It’s time to change course.
While the military characterized the move as part of a planned withdrawal that reflects the view that Iran now poses less of a threat, the news has prompted debate over the timing of the decision.
The old paradigm that has served as the foundation of the U.S.-Saudi relationship over the previous 75 years — security for Riyadh in exchange for reliable oil supplies for Washington — is no longer as applicable as it once was.
The Saudis have reason to try to distract from what’s going on inside the country.
Internet has in recent years made its way to the long list of foes Iranian hardliners wholeheartedly wish to defeat in preparation for transmuting the country into an “Islamic North Korea.”
The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout may rewrite the security as well as the political and economic map of the Middle East.
US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell pushed the Germans hard on officially designating Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization.
The pandemic is likely to accelerate changes in the Middle Eastthat were already beginning to happen, or were inherent in existing conditions.
Some have argued that the US should commit to an increasing dependence on petroleum, as well as ushering in a new cycle of overseas interventions propping up an existing, overburdened, and outdated system of U.S. military hegemony.
In order to pile more sanctions on Iran, the U.S. has to be part of the Iran nuclear deal. So now the Trump administration is pretending it never left.
United Against Nuclear Iran has named and shamed companies conducting humanitarian trade with Iran, but now a UANI senior advisor says Iran needs help fighting the coronavirus and stopping its spread.
Given that Israeli annexation of most of the West Bank is now a forgone conclusion, Washington is beginning to catch up to the idea that the two-state solution is no longer viable.
A UN aid and relief agency is ready to offer its support, all it needs is the funding to administer it.
While the world is facing a pandemic, Turkey is expanding its regional influence.
Washington hawks are taking bad faith to a whole new level in their quest for regime change in Tehran.
All historians begin somewhere. Their choice of starting date reveals what they take as significant in explaining how we got to be where we are.
COVID-19 has impacted countries in the region in different ways but their paths forward will be equally challenging.
