The war-time disruptions of international shipping transiting the Strait of Hormuz are spreading through the fertilizer ...

As the third-largest producer in OPEC+, Abu Dhabi’s departure will require a long-term recalibration of the group’s strategy.

While Egypt is not in the direct line of fire in the US-Israeli war with Iran, its economy is acutely vulnerable to the ...

The Middle East is both central to key United States interests and prone to instability. Yet US national security and defense ...

For over a decade, US presidents have sought to deemphasize the Middle East and turn America’s strategic focus to other, ostensibly more important global priorities. Such thinking, however, ...

A brutal power struggle between Sudan’s army, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and a paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), plunged the country into a tragic civil war three years ago. By ...

On April 25, municipal elections took place across the West Bank and in one municipality in Gaza. Next month, on May 14, Fatah — the main ruling party in the Palestinian Authority — will hold its ...

The limelight for American foreign policy shifts to Beijing this month, where US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet on May 14-15 to address a long agenda of unresolved ...

Economic blockades have long been used as a tool of coercion, deliberately positioned between diplomacy and war. From the British naval blockade of Germany in World War I, which helped weaken the ...

Middle East Institute 1763 N St NW Washington, District of Columbia 20036 This panel will feature opening remarks from President of the Middle East Institute, Amb. Stuart E. Jones (ret.). This event ...

President Donald Trump has an opportunity to do something no American president has managed in nearly half a century: end the war between Israel and Lebanon for good. Washington has already seized the ...

It appears that Donald Trump’s Iran policy has shifted from “maximum pressure” to “maximum uncertainty,” with Washington sending mixed messages in the aftermath of the US president’s decision to ...