List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 There’s Another Cyclone off the Yemeni Coast. That’s Not Normal.
Unusual weather patterns spell more trouble for Yemen.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Our Guitars Are Our Kalashnikovs’: The Musicians Who Helped Save Mali
A new documentary follows a group of musicians who continue to sing and play their instruments in Mali after jihadis implemented sharia law and banned music.
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HRCopener The Hillary Clinton Doctrine
For four years she was Obama’s loyal secretary of state. Her critics call her an interventionist, her admirers tough-minded. What kind of president would she be?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Syrian Ghosts
What the Balkans can teach us about how to end the conflict in the Levant.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Putin Suspends All Russian Flights to Egypt as Fears of Terror Attack Grow
Is Moscow getting ready to acknowledge the Russian charter jet downed over the Sinai Peninsula may have been felled by a bomb?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Most Unsocial Network
A new class-action lawsuit accuses Facebook of being a matchmaking service for would-be Palestinian terrorists.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Turkey’s Democratic Tipping Point
Erdogan’s resounding victory could mean he’s ready to set aside the politics of division and fear and govern the country again. Or it could mean just the opposite.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Assad’s Sunni Foot Soldiers
Russia and Iran's intervention in Syria gets all the attention, but many in the country’s majority sect are still fighting for the government. They may hold the key to Syria’s future.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Netanyahu Appointee Apologizes for Calling John Kerry Mentally Deficient
The man Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu picked as his new chief of public diplomacy apologized on Thursday for comparing Secretary of State John Kerry’s “mental age” to that of a 12-year-old and suggesting that President Barack Obama is anti-Semitic. Netanyahu also distanced himself from Ran Baratz’s remarks, which were posted on his Facebook page, saying he hadn’t been aware of them before the nomination.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Wellington’s Quixotic Mideast Peace Plan
New Zealand mounts a push for a U.N. Security Council resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that neither side particularly wants.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The EU Is Overwhelmed by Refugees Who Survive — and Those Who Don’t
The number of refugees arriving in Europe isn't slowing down. And now Greece is running out of room to bury those who die en route.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Death of Politics in Sisi’s Egypt
Egyptians are going to the polls to elect their first parliament in over three years — but whichever party wins, the country's strongman-in-chief looks poised to come out on top.