List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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noor Can This Provincial Warlord Scale in Kabul?
Meet the Facebook-posting, Segway-riding, battle-hardened governor who just might be Afghanistan’s next president.
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trump crop Trump’s First Foreign Trip: To Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican
Not the traditional first foray for a new president.
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A US officer, from the US-led coalition, stands with a fighters from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) at the site of Turkish airstrikes near northeastern Syrian Kurdish town of Derik, known as al-Malikiyah in Arabic, on April 25, 2017. Turkish warplanes killed more than 20 Kurdish fighters in strikes in Syria and Iraq, where the Kurds are key players in the battle against the Islamic State group. The bombardment near the city of Al-Malikiyah in northeastern Syria saw Turkish planes carry out "dozens of simultaneous air strikes" on YPG positions overnight, including a media centre, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. / AFP PHOTO / DELIL SOULEIMAN (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: Turkey Threatens U.S. Troops in Syria; Tillerson Tosses Human Rights; Russia’s Race to The Arctic
North Korea Policy, Explained; Your New NATO; Syrian Opposition Back to the Table; Congress Slashes Funding For New Bomb; North Korea Angry at China; Iraq Contractor Kerfuffle
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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) Turkey Threatens U.S. Forces in Syria, as Putin Presses for Safe Zones
American Special Forces are acting as a buffer between Turkish and Kurdish forces in Syria, as Erdogan prepares to visit Washington
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abbas Remember the Two-State Solution? Abbas Does.
Joint comments by Trump and Abbas were a cordial reminder of the barriers to a peace deal.
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oil crop Saudi Arabia Now Controls the Largest Oil Refinery in North America
The move is a huge boon to Aramco before a big IPO, experts say.
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AAASCS SitRep: McMaster Says Trump Doing Right Thing; Putin, Trump Talk; Pentagon Nixes Navy Plans in South China Sea
European Command Reverts to War Posture; Congress Worried About saudi Assault in Yemen; Army Secretary Nominee in Hot Water; 355 Ship Navy Will Take Decades to Build
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zeid The Arab Prince Standing Up to Trump
Prince Zeid Raad al-Hussein has emerged as the Middle East's most prominent defender of human rights — both in the region of his birth, and the United States.
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1-502 ‘Blackhearts’ (I): A view from the inside
There is more to the story that has remained in the shadows for too long.
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NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 29: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the General Assembly at the United Nations before a UN General Assembly vote on upgrading the status of the Palestinians to non-member observer state on November 29, 2012 in New York City. With many European nations in favor, it looks certain that the Palestinians will win the coveted U.N. recognition as a state today. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Don’t Waste Arab-Israeli Cooperation on the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
Trump shouldn't prematurely risk the opportunity to assemble an unprecedented coalition on efforts to bridge the Middle East's most enduring political divide.
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RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - SEPTEMBER 16: In this handout image supplied by the Palestinian Press Office (PPO), Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas makes a speech to confirm that the Palestinian Authority will request full membership at the United Nations when the General Assembly convenes next week, on September 16, 2011 in Ramallah, West Bank. President Abbas will formally submit the application for Palestinian statehood to the 66th United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 20th. The Palestinians and the Israelis are taking part in global diplomatic lobbying to win support for their differing positions on statehood. The Palestinian bid arises from two decades of on-and-off peace talks that have failed to produce a deal. The ultimate goal of the Palestinian Authority is to end Israeli occupation and to establish a sovereign and independent state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital. (Photo by Thaer Ganaim /PPO via Getty Images) A U.S. Plan for the Abbas-Trump Meeting
This week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas heads to Washington as President Donald Trump makes his first major foray into Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.
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Syrians bury the bodies of victims of a a suspected toxic gas attack in Khan Sheikhun, a nearby rebel-held town in Syrias northwestern Idlib province, on April 5, 2017. International outrage is mounting over a suspected chemical attack that killed scores of civilians in Khan Sheikhun on April 4, 2017. Warplanes had carried out a suspected toxic gas attack that killed dozens people including several children, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said those killed in the town of Khan Sheikhun, in Idlib province, had died from the effects of the gas, adding that dozens more suffered respiratory problems and other symptoms. / AFP PHOTO / FADI AL-HALABI (Photo credit should read FADI AL-HALABI/AFP/Getty Images) Soviet-Era Bomb Used in Syria Chemical Weapon Attack, Claims Rights Group
Human Rights Watch says Syria has stepped up nerve agent warfare in past year, flouting a commitment to eliminate its chemical weapons program.
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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets with Jason Greenblatt, the US president's assistant and special representative for international negotiations, at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 14, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI (Photo credit should read ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Israel-Palestine Negotiator Is Perfectly Unqualified
And that might be exactly why he pulls off a peace deal.
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palestine crop In Bid to End Isolation, Hamas Tries Out a Friendlier Face
Will the Palestinian group’s new charter help mend international ties?
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mosul1 ‘The Planes Have Destroyed Us’
America says its airstrikes are helping liberate Iraqis from the Islamic State. Residents of Mosul give a very different account.
