Having emerged in 2017 from Yemen’s Southern Movement, the Southern Transitional Council (STC) is the preeminent political and military force in southern Yemen. Since its founding, Aidarous al-Zubaidi...

Ethiopia’s highly contested and controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was officially inaugurated on September 9, 2025, marking the completion of one of Africa’s most ambitious infrastru...

Since Israel began its brutal assault on Gaza in October 2023, observers have asked how the world could allow the indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinians to continue. Part of the answer is that numerous powerful corporations in the United States and overseas have profited from Israel’s actions, as well as from Israel’s ongoing efforts to avoid accountability. In her bombshell July […]

At first glance, US President Donald J. Trump and Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa inhabit very different political universes. Trump, the populist president of a prosperous global power, is k...

The United States circulated to several UN Security Council members a draft resolution that would provide a mandate for an international stabilization force in Gaza for at least two years.

Among Arab states, perhaps none faces a more complex challenge in managing relations with President Donald Trump than Qatar. Ironically, Doha’s deepening partnership with the Trump administration has been bolstered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ill-judged September 9, 2025, missile attack on Hamas leaders in Doha, where they had gathered to review a ceasefire deal proposed by the American […]

More than a decade into Yemen’s civil war, no end to the conflict is in sight. The lines of control between the two main belligerents have barely changed, and conditions for the Yemeni people continue to be dire. The internationally recognized government is led by the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), a loose-knit coalition of Yemeni political and military factions backed […]

An October 2025 deal between Damascus and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)—which are linked to the Kurdish-dominated autonomous administration in the northeast—has opened a viable path to merge the SDF into Syria’s national army. The merger had been agreed to, in principle, in a March 2025 accord between the transitional government led by Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Mazloum […]

President Trump defended Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to order “forceful” strikes in Gaza after accusing Hamas of breaching the ceasefire agreement.

On April 15, 2023, a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as “Hemedti,” erupted into what has become a devastating armed conflict and humanitarian crisis. By 2025, Sudan had two rival governments—the SAF’s “Hope Government” in Port Sudan, in […]

On a cold night in January 2022, Omar Assad, an elderly Palestinian American man, was driving back to his town in the West Bank after a night of playing cards at his cousin’s house. According to a lea...

Rather than serving as a forum for hashing out difficult next steps for Gaza, the Sharm summit was largely a congratulatory gesture to Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump traveled to Israel and Egypt to celebrate the Gaza ceasefire deal. He addressed the Knesset before heading to Egypt, where he and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi co-host...

On September 9, 2025, Israel attacked Qatar in an act of international aggression that caused shockwaves in Doha, across the Gulf states, and around the world. Missile strikes on a building in a busy ...

Much has been said and written about the Gaza peace plan announced by President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 29, 2025. Many have praised it as a breakthrough...

Middle East experts critically examine the policies of the second Trump administration toward the Middle East and their implications for democracy, human rights, international law, and regional stabil...

Recognition of a State of Palestine has recently taken on new momentum. On September 22, 2025, France became the latest country to extend recognition when French President Emmanuel Macron added his co...

On September 29, the White House announced a new 20-point plan for ending the Israeli war on Gaza that includes, among other things, provisions for an immediate ceasefire, the release of Israeli and P...

Turkey–Israel relations have entered one of their most tense periods in years, triggered by a series of regional developments that have transformed the two countries’ post-Gaza diplomatic crisis into ...

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