It rained heavily during the night of December 3, 2013. Car traffic had nearly stopped…

Over the weekend, in what the Telegraph described as “a potential sign of the fraying…

Overshadowed by Iraq’s intensified security crisis, the country certified the results of the 30 April…

As a radical Islamic army marches across Iraq, America is making a deal with the…

Encouraging signs have emerged that the collapse of federal government control in Iraq may have…

When Egyptians were flooding to Tahrir Square, I was fascinated with the Arab Spring. Like…

( Read the full report in PDF->http://www.crisisgroup.org/ /media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/Iraq%20Syria%20Lebanon/Iraq/b038-iraq-s-jihadi-jack-in-the-box.pdf?utm_source=iraq-report&utm_medium=3&utm_campaign=mremail) Within days, the jihadist group Islamic State of…

The stunning advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in northern and…

As negotiations over its nuclear program continue this week in Vienna, a new Pew Research…

Michael Doran is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at…

The West, led by the United States, reveals time and again its ignorance regarding this…

Wall Street Journal During the second Iraq war, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was one…

On June 13, Michael Knights, James Jeffrey, and Aaron Zelin addressed a Policy Forum at…

After three years of civil war, Syria’s neighbors fear that al Qaeda or other extremist…

Millions across the Middle East and North Africa will cheer Algeria, the only Arab squad…

American Interest The Jordanian city of Maan is boiling. Three hours of bad road south…

In his excellent book “A Line in the Sand,” on the Franco-British rivalry in the…

On June 10, Iraqi president Nouri al-Maliki publicly called for the establishment of popular militias…

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a Sunni militant group controlling territory spanning…

Ahmed Ali, Jessica D. Lewis, Kimberly Kagan ISIS has advanced from Mosul, which it seized…

During his June 4 visit to Lebanon, Secretary of State John Kerry encouraged lawmakers to…

There has been much speculation in Beirut about how to get Lebanon out of its…

New findings from three public opinion polls in the West Bank and Gaza show overwhelming…

MEES Most of the natural gas (about 40 tcf) found so far in the Eastern…

WASHINGTON — Many would agree with the principle that a state, whatever its name is,…

By Mick Krever, CNN The Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria, who left his post just…

On May 22, the Wall Street Journal reported that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)…

It has become obvious in recent days that much of the speculation about whether Saad…

During Lebanon’s Civil War (1975-1990), Israel took sides with the Christian Phalange Party. This had…