List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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Members of the Iraqi forces drive their Humvees in the streets of west Mosul on March 17, 2017 as they advance in the offensive against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. / AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo credit should read ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images) What Should Trump Do After the Islamic State Is Defeated?
The defeat of ISIS will create new dilemmas for the Trump administration.
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y crop Apache Helicopter Guns Down Boat Full of Somali Refugees Fleeing Yemen
The incident adds to horrific civilian death toll in Yemen's conflict.
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TOPSHOT - Syrian civil defence volunteers, known as the White Helmets, dig through the rubble of a mosque following a reported airstrike on a mosque in the village of Al-Jineh in Aleppo province late on March 16, 2017. The US military says it carried out an air strike in northern Syria against an Al-Qaeda target, but denies deliberately targeting a mosque where dozens were killed according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. / AFP PHOTO / Omar haj kadour (Photo credit should read OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Says Airstrike In Syria Did Not Hit Mosque
Videos emerged of a bombed-out mosque and dozens dead after an airstrike in northern Syria, but U.S. officials say they hit al Qaeda.
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saudi crop Saudi Arabia, China Sign Deals Worth Up to $65 Billion
As Riyadh tries to jar itself out of an economic rut.
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 26: (AFP OUT) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attends the annual Governors Dinner in the East Room of the White House February 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. Part of the National Governors AssociationÕs annual meeting in the nation's capital, the black tie dinner and ball is the first formal event the Trumps will host at the White House since moving in last month. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) SitRep: Pentagon Wins Budget; State Loses; Tillerson Speaks!; Pentagon, NSC Staffing Drama
More Troops to Syria; U.S. and Russian Troops Eyeball in Syria; Hackers Indicted; And Lots More
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Fighters from Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front drive in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo flying Islamist flags as they head to a frontline, on May 26, 2015. Once Syria's economic powerhouse, Aleppo has been divided between government control in the city's west and rebel control in the east since shortly after fighting there began in mid-2012. AFP PHOTO / AMC / FADI AL-HALABI (Photo credit should read Fadi al-Halabi/AFP/Getty Images) Al Qaeda Is Starting to Swallow the Syrian Opposition
On the sixth anniversary of the Syrian uprising, moderate rebels have never been weaker — and jihadis have never been stronger.
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yemen crop U.N. Warns Yemen Could Be on Brink of Famine
The crisis comes as the United States weighs sharp cuts to U.N. humanitarian aid programs
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pic crop Watch: The Global Flow of Asylum-Seekers In One Interactive Map
Visualizing one of history’s biggest global crises.
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This aerial photo taken on January 2, 2017 shows a Chinese navy formation, including the aircraft carrier Liaoning (C), during military drills in the South China Sea. The aircraft carrier is one of the latest steps in the years-long build-up of China's military, as Beijing seeks greater global power to match its economic might and asserts itself more aggressively in its own backyard. / AFP / STR / China OUT (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: China’s Latest Island Adventure; White House Rejects Mattis Deputy; McMaster Overruled at NSC
Tillerson Lands in Tokyo; U.S. Trains on ISIS Drones; Russia Building Spree; And Lots More
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‘The President is Aware’
The Pentagon is sending in more troops to Syria and Afghanistan. And, apparently, the president has been made “aware.” Is that it?
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General view of the UN Human Rights Council session after the United Nations (UN) Commission of Inquiry on Syria delivered the latest report on the situation in the war-ravaged country to the UN Human Rights Council on September 16, 2014 in Geneva. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI Beware the Ides of Leaving the Human Rights Council
Yes, it’s a flawed body. But if Trump abandons the HRC, it will give Russia, China, and Iran a free hand to rewrite the global rules on human rights.
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NEWPORT NEWS, VA - MARCH 02: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the U.S. Navy and shipyard workers on board the USS Gerald R. Ford CVN 78 that is being built at Newport News shipbuilding, on March 2, 2017 in Newport News, Virginia. The USS Ford is powered by two Nuclear reactors and is 1, 092 feet long with a 134 foot beam and can carry over 75 aircraft. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Donald Trump Needs to Own the Yemen Raid
Soldiers and civilians die in the war against terrorists. But sending a message to our allies that we’re in the fight is more important.
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A US "Predator" drone passes overhead at a forward operating base near Kandahar on January 1, 2009. France is the fourth-largest contributor to the international military force in Afghanistan with more than 3,000 troops deployed around Kabul and in forward bases in the east of the country. AFP PHOTO/Joel SAGET (Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: Trump’s New Drone Rules; White House Loosening Counterterrorism Restraints; Wants to Gut U.N., State Funding
Iran’s Underground Weapons Factory; State Fighting Budget Cuts; More Cyber Worries; And Lots More
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TOPSHOT - A Palestinian man sits near Israel's controversial separation barrier dividing the Palestinian neighbourhood of Al-Tur in the Israeli annexed East Jerusalem with the West Bank, on February 11, 2016. / AFP / THOMAS COEX (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images) Advice to Trump’s Middle East Envoy: Don’t Stop with Netanyahu and Abbas
Only by interacting with a diverse array of Israelis and Palestinians can the U.S. envoy hope to make any headway in the Middle East.
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AAManbij SitRep: The Wait for Raqqa; North Korean Missile Plans; Moscow Hacks; Drones for South Korea
Empty Chairs at DoD; Tillerson Heads to Asia; Oil Wars in Libya; Drone Busters, And Lots More
