List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The United States Museum of Holocaust Kitsch
At Washington’s memorial to the genocide of Jews, history often takes a backseat to “collective memory.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama Poked Putin. And Putin Poked Back.
Washington’s decision to beef up NATO in Eastern Europe will compel Moscow to reciprocate with an equally aggressive response.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Palestine’s Broken Leadership
As the Obama administration winds down, one of its great regrets is that it has not achieved a breakthrough in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, much less a peace settlement.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Spare a Prayer for Staffan de Mistura
The U.N. is throwing yet another desperate Hail Mary for peace in Syria and the eventual removal of Assad. Too bad Russia and Iran have other plans.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Odierno: 50,000 Troops Needed To Defeat the Islamic State
Retired Army Gen. Ray Odierno says 50,000 troops are needed to defeat the Islamic State.
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A member of Iraq's elite counter-terrorism service flashes the "V" for victory sign from inside a US-made Abrams tank on December 29, 2015 on the outskirts of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, about 110 kilometers west of Baghdad, after Iraqi forces recaptured it from the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group. Iraq declared the city of Ramadi liberated from the Islamic State group Monday and raised the national flag over its government complex after clinching a landmark victory against the jihadists. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) Meet the ‘Beast,’ the Little Iraqi Tank That Could
The Pentagon is touting the exploits of a single Iraqi Abrams M1 tank helping to reclaim an Islamic State-held city.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Exchange: Are Journalists Checking their Privilege When Covering Refugees?
Tobias Zielony and Anna Badkhen on the displaced, the Global South, and what Africans misunderstand about their peers who’ve made it to Germany.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: New CIA Plan to Arm Syrian Rebels as Ceasefire Crumbles
Ash Carter in India; new Somalia drone strikes; the age of ISIS body counts; and lots more
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Air France Hits More Turbulence Over Flights to Iran
Gay employees of Air France are asking to opt out of flights to Tehran.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Turkey Has Given Up on Democracy Outside Its Borders, Too
Not too long ago, Ankara was working to promote democracy across its region. But an increasingly authoritarian President Erdogan has lost interest.
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fp-cengiz-030-e1460042307858 ‘The Peshmerga Isn’t Afraid of ISIS’
Fighting on the front lines, Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers have joined the Iraqi Army in a bloody battle against the Islamic State. But sharing a common enemy doesn’t make them easy allies.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Syrian Rebels Commit to Peace Talks Despite Regime Offensive
The Syrian opposition will attend a new round of U.N.-backed peace talks in Geneva even as a the regime of Bashar al-Assad wages a bloody offensive in the rebel city of Aleppo, Foreign Policy has learned.
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