The longer the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict drags on, the chances rise that Iran will play a more assertive role.

The administration announced new crushing sanctions that will do nothing but add to the misery and suffering of the Iranian people

The new Armenian-Azerbaijani war thus poses challenging questions of both Russia’s capabilities and its vision for itself, not only in the South Caucasus but vis-à-vis the global order that elsewhere it has been happy to challenge.

Others’ perceptions and his own posturing notwithstanding, Erdoğan is actually going through one of the most difficult periods of his political life.

The country and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman saw their chairmanship as an opportunity to showcase the kingdom’s leadership and ability to be a visionary global player.

Sudan isn’t the UAE; it has a more liberal and secular civil society that will oppose an agreement with Israel.

The deal may undermine years of work toward self-determination for Western Sahara

Two years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, the Quincy Institute takes a broad look at how US policy toward Saudi Arabia needs to change.

If there’s one word that best summarizes the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign, it’s “failure.”

The Islamic Republic is home to sizeable Azerbaijani community, perhaps one quarter of the population, within which elements have flirted with independence.

While in recent years Tehran has had a strong presence of friendly forces in the vicinity of Israel, now it is Tel Aviv that is encircling Iran more than ever.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez abruptly withdrew from an event honoring Rabin, sparking debate about his complicated past.

The crimes occurring in Yemen are serious — and the responsible parties demonstrably unwilling or unable to address them.

Although the early predictions that the virus would kill between 250,000 and 500,000 Iranians by August 2020 have failed to materialize, and the second wave is slowly flattening, Iran is by no means out of the woods.

While such a prospect cannot be ruled out, the chances that Saudi Arabia will normalize relations with Israel remain small for the foreseeable future.

Time to acknowledge that a deal with Israel for ‘normalization’ won’t get the UAE, Bahrain, and others off the hook.

Associating hawkishness with credibility in foreign policy is in itself a symptom of deep malaise that has led the U.S. to excessive entanglements in the Middle East.