Middle East

Aleppo Evil

Meet the flesh-eating parasite that's sweeping across Syria.

BY ERIN BANCO | JUNE 19, 2013

The Struggle for Power in Saudi Arabia

As the gerontocratic rulers of the House of Saud plot to appoint successors, the inside fight to lead the kingdom is heating up.

BY DAVID B. OTTAWAY | JUNE 19, 2013

Rebel Whimper

Obama's Syria policy is a riddle wrapped in an enigma surrounding nothing.

BY DANIELLE PLETKA | JUNE 19, 2013

The Road to Nowhere Good

When Syria's rebels need more than just weapons, America may well find itself in the middle of a civil war.

BY DAVID W. BARNO | JUNE 18, 2013

Turkish Tailspin

After weeks of domestic turmoil, is Ankara losing control of the economy?

BY AARON STEIN | JUNE 18, 2013

Light Up the West Bank

Want to reinvigorate the Middle East peace process? Start with 3G.

BY ALEC ROSS | JUNE 18, 2013

Present Throughout the Creation

Turning 90, Shimon Peres talks peace, politics, and the limits of leadership.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | JUNE 18, 2013

Regime Change Obama Can Believe In

Iran just opened itself to a nuclear deal -- but America has to make the first move.

BY VALI NASR | JUNE 16, 2013

Dancing in the Streets

Iranians and Turks are voting with their feet, but are these countries moving in opposite directions?

BY BARBARA SLAVIN | JUNE 15, 2013

Regime Change in Qatar

Knee-deep in Syria's civil war and surrounded by family quarrels, Qatar's emir is looking to hand over the country to his 33-year-old son.

BY SIMON HENDERSON | JUNE 14, 2013

Nate Silvering the Iranian Elections

Does 538 work when only one person runs the show in Tehran?

BY KARIM SADJADPOUR | JUNE 13, 2013

The Syria Strategy Vacuum

Forget about "how" to intervene in the Syrian civil war. The Obama administration needs to answer the bigger question: why?

BY MARC LYNCH | JUNE 13, 2013

Missing Mahmoud

Don’t snicker. Once President Ahmadinejad is gone, there’ll be no one left to stand up to Iran's mullahs.

BY REZA ASLAN | JUNE 12, 2013

The Washington Intervention War

With diplomatic options dead in the water, camps are forming in the administration about how to arm the Syrian rebels.

BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON | JUNE 12, 2013

The Ayatollah's Point Man

Meet Saeed Jalili, the holier-than-thou front-runner in Iran's presidential election.

BY ABBAS MILANI | JUNE 12, 2013

The New Problem From Hell

Obama's options in Syria are awful. But the United States is headed for intervention anyway.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | JUNE 11, 2013

Wings of Change

Which faction of Turkey's ruling party will emerge the strongest after the Istanbul protests?

BY AARON STEIN | JUNE 7, 2013

Syria Is Now Saudi Arabia's Problem

The battle for a town on the Lebanese border marks the kingdom's first attempt to lead Syria's fractured opposition.

BY HASSAN HASSAN | JUNE 6, 2013

Welcome to the Syrian Jihad

The Arab world's most popular theologian stokes the flames of a Sunni-Shia war.

BY MARC LYNCH | JUNE 6, 2013

The Combative Consigliere

Will Susan Rice bring out a more muscular side of Barack Obama?

BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 6, 2013

Turkey’s Secular Awakening

The protests across Istanbul aren’t about Islamism, the elite, or even religion writ large -- they're a call for a real liberal democracy.

BY WHIT MASON | JUNE 5, 2013

The No-Plan Zone

Modest measures to aid the Syrian rebels won't topple Assad. And despite protestations, even Washington's hawks don't want to go further.

BY MICAH ZENKO | JUNE 5, 2013

Palestine's Nothing Man

The new prime minister in Ramallah is a political novice -- and that's exactly why President Mahmoud Abbas chose him.

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | JUNE 4, 2013

Egypt's Left Behind

How an American NGO came to Cairo after the revolution hoping to build a democracy, and ended up alienating the very people it was supposed to help.

BY DAVID KENNER | JUNE 4, 2013

A Body in Search of a Head

The EU can't get its act together when it comes to a common foreign policy. But it's common economics that's screwed the Syrian rebels.

BY ROBERT ZARETSKY | JUNE 3, 2013

It Ain’t Easy Being Green

Iran’s protest movement struggles to make its voice heard in an election where they have no good options.

BY KELLY GOLNOUSH NIKNEJAD | JUNE 3, 2013

Kerry's Syrian Quagmire

As the secretary of state tries to get the rebels and the regime to the negotiating table, a State Department official says it would take "sarin gas being lobbed at Tel Aviv" for Washington to take military action.

BY GAYLE LEMMON | MAY 31, 2013

A Shameful Neglect

It's time to stop pretending that America's in Afghanistan to help women.

BY ANNA BADKHEN | MAY 31, 2013

Hezbollah's Syrian Adventure

As Sunni jihadists battle it out with Shiite militias in Lebanon and Syria, the region lurches closer to all-out war.

BY MITCHELL PROTHERO | MAY 30, 2013

Erotic Republic

Iran is in the throes of an unprecedented sexual revolution. Could it eventually shake the regime?

BY AFSHIN SHAHI | MAY 29, 2013