Iranian policemen at the parliament building in Tehran, June 7.
EPA/Omid Vahabzadeh
The world’s response to two terrorist incidents in Iran was telling, and ominous.
A boy is evacuated during an attack on the Iranian parliament in central Tehran on June 7 2017.
Omid Vahabzadeh/ REUTERS
Terrorist attacks in Iran are evidence that, in the Middle East, there are far too many moving parts for US President Donald Trump’s recent trip to have changed much on the ground.
Doha, under a cloud.
EPA/Yoan Valat
Saudi Arabia and Qatar have butted heads before, but this time seems different.
Israeli soldiers during the Six-Day War.
רפי רוגל via Wikimedia Commons
A 50-year-old conflict that redrew the Middle East in less than a week tells us a lot about how states can play the media.
Iraqi soldiers gather near the remains of wall panels and colossal statues of winged bulls that were destroyed by Islamic State militants in the Assyrian city of Nimrud, late last year.
Ari Jalal/Reuters
Islamic State has destroyed globally-significant sites in Iraq and Syria, but not as wanton acts of destruction. Instead, they are calculated political and religious attacks.
Demonstration of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, at a naval base in California.
REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon
For-profit corporations are deeply embedded in US national security infrastructure – and they’re not going anywhere.
EPA/Yahya Arhab
Already one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian disasters, the situation in Yemen is only getting worse.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks on a podium as U.S. President Donald Trump listens.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
We asked an expert on diplomacy and foreign policy.
A game of football in Douma, Syria, where prospects for many youngsters look bleak.
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In the Middle East, tens of millions of young people have few opportunities – and plenty to be angry about.
Solidarity tent.
As 1,300 prisoners went on strike for improved conditions, a wave of solidarity protests spread across the Palestinian Territories.
Libyan fighters head off to fight Islamic State.
EPA
Of all the places for a jihadist militant group to operate, it would be hard to find a more conducive country than Libya.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly supports the nation-state bill.
REUTERS/Abir Sultan
A linguistics scholar explains why the loss of Arabic in Israel would be a loss of history, culture and possibly human rights.
Four more years.
EPA/Abedin Taherkenareh
Between an electorate hungry for change and a powerful hardline elite, Hassan Rouhani has his work cut out for him.
President Donald Trump delivers a speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit on Sunday, May 21, 2017, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Trump avoided many of the missteps his critics feared, but he failed to acknowledge the presence of America’s large Muslim population and its contribution to American society.
Hassan Rouhani does the rounds at the Tehran book fair.
EPA/Presidential Official Website/HA
Handing over censorship to authors and writers themselves may actually make it harsher.
Hassan Rouhani’s supporters have high hopes for a second term.
EPA/Abedin Taherkenareh
The election TV debates have shown the candidates to be out of touch.
Women are increasingly the breadwinners of their families, a shift in domestic roles that has upsides and challenges.
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Here’s how we can make families work better for women in the 21st century.
Rules imposed after the 9/11 attacks can obstruct aid to Somalia’s internally displaced people.
Omar Abdisalan/AMISOM Photo
Rules imposed after 9/11 and still on the books are getting in the way of delivering aid to conflict zones. In countries like Yemen and Syria, it could mean the difference between life and death.
Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters
A case study from the height of the Crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries illustrates that even the most brutal leaders can choose to compromise for stability.
Syrian Christians and Muslims offer prayers for nuns held by rebels, at the Greek Orthodox Mariamiya Church in Damascus, Syria, in 2013.
AP Photo
For many centuries, Syrian society has included people of many faiths – Sunni and Shi'i Muslims, Christians and Druze. This past is important to know to understand the present.