American worries about Turkish ambitions to develop nuclear weapons are not new. As early as 1966, a secret memorandum by ...

The outbreak of the US and Israeli war with Iran on February 28, 2026, shocked many observers. Yet the greater surprise was not the war itself, or Iran’s wider attacks on Arab Gulf states, but how ...

A great prize lies unclaimed by the United States and its allies: Lebanon. Ever since Hizballah’s deadly attack against the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, which killed 241 American service ...

On June 14, 2026, the United States and Iran agreed on terms to end the war that started on February 28, 2026, and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. MEI experts react to the deal and what it means for the ...

Since 1967, West Bank settlements have been a contested feature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The term refers to Israeli residential communities established in the territory on the west bank of ...

When Iranian drone strikes hit two of Amazon’s data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in early March, amid the ongoing US-Israeli war with Iran, much of the media’s reflex was to declare ...

As Syria moves toward reconstruction, the country’s new authorities have already made a consequential decision about who will control the postwar economy. Last June, President Ahmed al-Sharaa enacted ...

On May 1, the United Arab Emirates ended almost 60 years as a core member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and a decade as a key player in the broader OPEC+ grouping, ...

The war-time disruptions of international shipping transiting the Strait of Hormuz are spreading through the fertilizer market and affecting supply chains encompassing regions that have no margins to ...

Did the presence of American military bases in the Gulf monarchies draw those states into the American-Israeli war against Iran, a war they had no say in initiating and no voice in prosecuting? That ...

Libya’s stability has taken on renewed strategic importance as the impact of the United States and Israel’s war with Iran reverberates through global energy markets, pushing Brent crude prices to a ...

The most recent cross-border hostilities between Afghanistan and Pakistan show how tensions have crossed a dangerous threshold. The significant escalation was originally triggered by Pakistan’s ...