List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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trump crop Trump’s Trip, Iranian Elections, North Korea’s Missile Test: The Weekend Behind, the Week Ahead
Catch up on top news from the weekend.
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A Yemeni tends to his malnourished child as she receives treatment at a hospital in the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, on May 2, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) If Trump Doubles Down on the Saudi War in Yemen, Millions Could Starve
Countless Yemeni lives hang in the balance as Trump gears up to deepen U.S. security cooperation with Saudi Arabia.
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U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump boards his plane following a rally in Vienna, Ohio, on March 14, 2016. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) Israeli Intelligence Furious Over Trump’s Loose Lips
As the U.S. president heads to Israel for a show of unity, the country’s spies are alarmed at his disclosures to the Russians.
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 15: U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shake hands following a joint news conference at the East Room of the White House February 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Trump hosted Prime Minister Netanyahu for talks for the first time since Trump took office on January 20. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Trump’s Middle East Trip Is Full of Traps
The stakes could not be higher for the president's first trip abroad. And he'll need to be careful and disciplined.
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A giant billboard bearing portraits of US President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's King Salman, is seen on a main road in Riyadh, on May 19, 2017. Trump, on his first foreign trip since taking office in January, will tell Muslim leaders of his "hopes for a peaceful vision of Islam" as he seeks support for the war against radical Islamists, Washington has said. / AFP PHOTO / FAYEZ NURELDINE (Photo credit should read FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Comes To Riyadh Bearing Gifts – Weapons Approved By Obama
But some of the arms sales could face an uphill battle on Capitol Hill.
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iranelex1 The Islamic Republic Is Heading for an Identity Crisis
As Iranians go to the polls, the divide between the country's octogenarian ayatollahs and its young population is wider than ever.
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iran vote What’s at Stake in Iran’s Elections?
That’s up to the powers behind the Iranian throne -- and to one U.S. president.
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spyer1 Syria Has Effectively Ceased to Exist
With Russians and Iranians in control in Damascus, the U.S. bolstering rebels, and no one powerful enough to press for unification, the breakup of Syria is a fait accompli.
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 15: (EDITORS NOTE: Retransmission with alternate crop.) U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shake hands during a joint news conference at the East Room of the White House February 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Trump hosted Prime Minister Netanyahu for talks for the first time since Trump took office on January 20. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Lessons for Trump and Kushner From My 20 Years of Failing at Middle East Peace
Not even the greatest dealmaker the world has ever seen can bridge a divide if the two sides aren’t ready to get to work.
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US President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (L) hold a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 12, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: Trump Hits the Road; U.S. Bombs Syrian Troops; White House Readying Plan to Hit Back at Critics
Chinese Planes Buzz U.S. Spy Plane; Defense Spending Topline; And Lots More
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A picture shows a T-54 tank at a position of Syrian pro-government forces in Aleppo's Sheikh Saeed district as troops advance in the southeastern edges of the divided city on November 30, 2016. More than 50,000 Syrians have joined a growing exodus of terrified civilians from the besieged rebel-held east of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said, as the UN Security Council was set for emergency talks on fighting in the city. Regime forces and allied fighters now fully control the city's northeast and pressed their offensive on November 30 on Aleppo's southeastern edges, advancing in the Sheikh Saeed district, according to state news agency SANA. / AFP / George OURFALIAN (Photo credit should read GEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Bombs Syrian Regime Forces For First Time
The attack marks a new chapter in the U.S.-led military effort in Syria
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 11: President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news cenference at Trump Tower on January 11, 2017 in New York City. This is TrumpÕs first official news conference since the November elections. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Trump’s Farcical New Beginning With Muslims
The president’s trip to Saudi Arabia isn’t the start of a new relationship with the Arab world; it’s militarism, disdain for human rights, and caricature of religion.
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Members of Iran's Assembly of Experts, Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi (up-R) and head of the Guardian Council, Ahmad Jannati (up-C), attend a session to appoint a new chairman on March 10, 2015 in Tehran. The Assembly of Experts, the clerics who appoint and can dismiss the country's supreme leader, picked the ultraconservative Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi as their new chairman in a surprise appointment. AFP PHOTO / BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images) Why Trump’s Iran Sanctions Waiver Should Worry the Mullahs
Trump may not have blown up the Iran nuclear deal just yet, but that doesn't mean he's going soft on Iran.
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rouhani Rouhani Goes to War Against Iran’s Deep State
Iran's president is vying for votes by attacking the country's unelected institutions. But votes might not be what decides the election.
