List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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awamiya Saudi Arabia’s ‘War on Terror’ Is Now Targeting Saudi Shiites
Riyadh has decided its violent confrontation with Iran needs to come to the homefront.
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US soldiers walk at the site of a Taliban suicide attack in Kandahar on August 2, 2017. A Taliban suicide bomber on August 2 rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into a convoy of foreign forces in Afghanistan's restive southern province of Kandahar, causing casualties, officials said. "At around noon a car bomb targeted a convoy of foreign forces in the Daman area of Kandahar," provincial police spokesman Zia Durrani told AFP. / AFP PHOTO / JAVED TANVEER (Photo credit should read JAVED TANVEER/AFP/Getty Images) -
vandam What the West Got Wrong in Syria
As President Bashar al-Assad tightens his grip over the country, it's time for those who tried to topple him to take stock of where they went wrong.
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EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / This photo taken on July 17, 2017 shows Afghan security personnel gathered around the body of a suspected Taliban militant after he was killed during a security operation in the Nawa district in Helmand province. Afghan security forces supported by US air power have retaken the center of volatile Nawa district from the Taliban in southern Helmand province, US officials said on July 17. / AFP PHOTO / NOOR MOHAMMAD (Photo credit should read NOOR MOHAMMAD/AFP/Getty Images) -
Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers patrol on the Kandahar-Uruzgan highway on October 16, 2016. / AFP / JAVED TANVEER (Photo credit should read JAVED TANVEER/AFP/Getty Images) -
Tribal gunmen loyal to the Huthi movement brandish their weapons in the capital Sanaa on April 1, 2015, during a demonstration against Saudi-led coalitions Operation Decisive Storm against the Huthi rebels in Yemen. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images) Confidential U.N. Report Suggests Saudi-Led Coalition Failing in Yemen
Saudi Arabia claims a series of military advances this year shows it is making progress in its 2 ½ year war against ethnic Shiite Houthis.
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rouhani1 Iran Is Not About to Fall for Trump’s Trap
President Hassan Rouhani is positioning himself to be the next supreme leader — and he isn't going to let U.S. threats to blow up the nuclear deal get in his way.
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US President Donald Trump (C) and US defence minister, James Mattis (3R) meets with officials during a meeting at the European Union Headquarters during a NATO meeting in Brussels on May 25, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / STEPHANIE LECOCQ (Photo credit should read STEPHANIE LECOCQ/AFP/Getty Images) -
TOPSHOT - A young child suffering from severe malnutrition lies on a bed in the ICU ward at the In-Patient Therapeutic Feeding Centre in the Gwangwe district of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, on September 17, 2016. Aid agencies have long warned about the risk of food shortages in northeast Nigeria because of the conflict, which has killed at least 20,000 since 2009 and left more than 2.6 million homeless. In July, the United Nations said nearly 250,000 children under five could suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year in Borno state alone and one in five -- some 50,000 -- could die. But despite the huge numbers involved, the situation has received little attention compared with other humanitarian crises around the world -- even within Nigeria. / AFP / STEFAN HEUNIS (Photo credit should read STEFAN HEUNIS/AFP/Getty Images) The Global Hunger Crisis Will Not Be Tweeted
Americans are exhausted keeping up with Donald Trump’s every tweet. People in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen are exhausted by violence and hunger.
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (L) and Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, arrive to hold a joint press conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh on February 12, 2017. / AFP / FAYEZ NURELDINE (Photo credit should read FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images) Confidential U.N. Report Accuses Saudi Coalition of Killing Hundreds of Yemeni Kids
Top U.N. advisor to recommend coalition should be put on the black list of countries that kill and maim children in war.
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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 16: National security advisor H.R. McMaster speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House May 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. Mcmaster addressed President Trumps upcoming trips and addressed the release of classified intel to Russia. (Photo by Alex Wong /Getty Images) Right-Wing War Against McMaster Spills Over Into Israel
A campaign of personal attacks on the U.S. national security advisor is even dividing allies.
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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - MAY 23: (ISRAEL OUT) US President Donald Trump (L) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leave after delivering a speech during a visit to the Israel Museum on May 23, 2017 in Jerusalem, Israel. U.S. President Donald Trump spend his second and final day visited Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, then visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and delivering an address at the Israel Museum, both in Jerusalem, before departing for the Vatican. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images) Is Trump’s Middle East Peace Effort Dead in the Water?
Whatever faint hopes there were of a breakthrough in the Israel-Palestine conflict are beyond reach right now.
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This picture taken and released on July 4, 2017 by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting the test-fire of intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 at an undisclosed location. North Korea declared on July 4 it had successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile -- a watershed moment in its push to develop a nuclear weapon capable of hitting the mainland United States. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. / (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: North Korea Waiting Game; Mattis on War, Dr. Strangelove, Afghanistan, And More
The Prince option in Afghanistan, Bannon in the hot seat, and lots more.
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US President Donald Trump (R) and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi take part in a bilateral meeting at a hotel in Riyadh on May 21, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) With Obama Gone, Trump Pentagon Resumes Major Egyptian War Game
The Bright Star exercise will focus on counterterrorism, key for the battle in the Sinai Peninsula.
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netanyahu Netanyahu’s Inner Circle Is Fleeing Like Rats on the Titanic
Faced with mounting scandal, the Israeli prime minister is lashing out at "fake news" and alleging a witch hunt. But can the Trump defense save him?
