Meting out vengeance in the name of counterterrorism has produced few tangible results in terms of expanding US influence in Iraq.

Is the Kingdom’s dollar peg in jeopardy?

The COVID-19 crisis should prompt a rethink on Egypt’s longstanding structural inequalities.

The old guard has yet to moot a palatable candidate for the young Iraqis demanding change.

Turkey and Russia’s divergent interests in northern Syria can no longer be glossed over.

Which exporters stand to lose the most if oil continues to hover at the $50 mark?

If past record is any indication, a healthy skepticism is warranted concerning Iran’s new oil discovery in Khuzestan province.

Though the assassination will further destabilize the region, a large-scale conventional conflict remains unlikely.

Will historians look back on the assassination of Qassem Soleimani as the catalyst for a new war in the Middle East?

Is Islamic State a spent force or a globe-spanning “al-Qaeda on steroids”?