As the world awaits the next chapter in the US-Iran saga, Iraq finds itself between a rock and a hard place. Given Iraq;s reliance on U.S. security assistance, Iraqi government ...
This week the European Union issued a sharp rebuke against the Israeli government’s approval of the construction of nearly 2,000 settler units in the Occupied Territories. EU’s statement brought into ...
News of last week’s targeted killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Forces of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), along with Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) ...
In 2018, after the suppression of the Green Movement following the disputed presidential election of 2009, Iran witnessed another wave of uprisings.
This article argues that President Putin's securitization agenda stems from the second Chechen War and is far more pragmatic concerning Russian engagement in the Middle East than former Soviet policies.
The onset of the so-called Arab Spring in late 2010 took governments around the world by surprise, and Turkey's Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) government was no exception.
This is a provocative title. The accusation of genocide in 1915-16 is common, but was there really a 30-year genocide, implying a steady, continuous campaign with one goal in mind, lasting from the late Ottoman period to the early days of the Turkish republic?
Few events in the history of the Middle East have had greater impact than World War I. The bloody fighting devastated the lands of the Ottoman Empire and marked the end of centuries-long political rule that had prevailed across swaths of the Middle East.
Matthew Gray offers a broad overview of the historical and current political economy of the Gulf states.
