List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 03: U.S President Donald Trump gives a joint statement with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on May 3, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images) How Can Trump Make Peace Without a Partner in Palestine?
The aging Mahmoud Abbas is more likely to preside over the collapse of Palestinian institutions than the creation of an independent state.
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QOM, IRAN: Iranian clergymen watch a Shahab-3 long-range ballistic missile fird by Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the desert outside the holy city of Qom, 02 November 2006. The Islamic republic fired its longer-range missile on exercise for the first time today as it began 10 days of war games amid a mounting standoff with the West over its nuclear programme. The hardline Revolutionary Guards fired the missiles, which have a range of up to 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) -- sufficient to threaten US bases in the Gulf -- during the first phase of the manoeuvres in the central desert, state television reported. AFP PHOTO/FARS NEWS (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Keeps the Iran Deal Alive, For Now
The U.S. renews sanctions relief for Iran even as it imposes new penalties in a ‘waive-and-slap” policy.
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greenwayphoto1 The Dangerous Lives of Undercover ISIS Informants
Meet the small group of Middle Eastern men willing to risk everything to help destroy the Islamic State.
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turkey crop Violence Erupts as Erdogan’s Goons Attack Protesters in Washington
Making America’s capital safe for thugs again.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves following meetings with US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. / AFP / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) With the White House in Chaos, What Can Trump’s Israel Visit Accomplish?
Ask anyone who has previously worked in the White House and they will tell you: Overseas presidential trips are hard.
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MEYRIN, SWITZERLAND - APRIL 19: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was created as an 360° X 360° full-spherical, Panoramic ball camera. Import image into a panoramic player to create an interactive 360 degree view.) A general view of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) cavern and detector during a behind the scenes tour at CERN, the World's Largest Particle Physics Laboratory on April 19, 2017 in Meyrin, Switzerland. ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a heavy-ion detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring. It is designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities, where a phase of matter called quark-gluon plasma forms. The ALICE detectors weighs 10,000-tonne and is 26 m long, 16 m high, and 16 m wide. It sits in a vast cavern 56 m below ground close to the village of St Genis-Pouilly in France. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) The Middle East Just Got its First Particle Accelerator
The new research center aims to substitute habitual regional clashes with a subatomic variety.
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trumpmbs Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Win Over the White House
The Saudis are thrilled that Barack Obama is out of office. But will they get what they need from the Trump administration?
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GettyImages-643214096 SitRep: Comey Memo Bombshell; Putin Jumps Into Trump Intel Fray; McMaster on Hot Seat
U.S. Intel Sharing Might be Damaged; Pentagon Debating Combat Zones; Erdogan and Trump Disagree on Kurds; THAAD Up and Running
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Passengers arrive from international flights on March 21, 2017 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Passengers traveling to the United States from 10 airports in eight Muslim-majority countries will be prohibited from bringing laptops, tablets and other portable electronic devices on board with them when they fly. The nine airlines affected by the US ban are Royal Jordanian, EgyptAir, Turkish Airlines, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Kuwait Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Qatar Airways, Emirates and Etihad Airways. / AFP PHOTO / DON EMMERT (Photo credit should read DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images) Laptop Ban May be Expanded to Flights From Europe
Counterterrorism experts say the move indicates terrorists may have new bomb-making capabilities.
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US National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster denies the report of US President Donald Trump revealing classified information to Russian officials in the Oval Office, during a statement to the press outside of the West Wing at the White House in Washington, DC, May 15, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) What Exactly Is the White House Denying About the ‘Trump Mishandled Classified Material’ Story?
It appears they are attempting something much bigger and more difficult: they are claiming the central allegations of the Washington Post story are false.
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US National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster denies the report of US President Donald Trump revealing classified information to Russian officials in the Oval Office, during a statement to the press outside of the West Wing at the White House in Washington, DC, May 15, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) In 2006 H.R. McMaster was mad at me, as I’m sure he is at the Washington Post now — and why that worries me a lot
In 2006 I wrote an article portraying the success of McMaster's 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment — and he went a bit batshit.
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TOPSHOT - Pro-Erdogan supporters react during a protest at the Sarchane park in Istanbul on July 19, 2016. The Turkish army said on July 19 that the vast majority of its members had no links with the July 15 attempted coup and warned that the putschists would face severe punishment. The armed forces blamed the "Fethullah Terrorist Organisation" (FETO) for the failed putsch, referring to Fethullah Gulen, a one-time ally turned foe of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey's prime minister said on July 19 his government had sent four files to the United States, as Ankara seeks the extradition of US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen. / AFP / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo credit should read ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images) The United States Should Extradite Fetullah Gülen
It is clear to the government of Turkey that the Pennsylvania cleric is a coup plotter. Donald Trump should honor our request to bring him to justice.
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oil crop Desperate Saudis, Russians Agree to Extend Oil Production Cuts
OPEC just can’t figure out how to kill the U.S. shale boom.
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rmeilane Syria’s Kurds Are Not the PKK
Amid the war against the Islamic State, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is bombing our villages and soldiers on an entirely false pretense.
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TOPSHOT - US forces, accompanied by Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters, drive their armoured vehicles near the northern Syrian village of Darbasiyah, on the border with Turkey on April 28, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / DELIL SOULEIMAN (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images) The United States and Turkey Are on a Collision Course in Syria
An insider’s view on how we got here — and what Trump can do about it.
