Recent speeches suggest there may be an appetite for closer relations, but it won’t be easy. A Saudi and an Iranian explain.
Police officers loyal to the Houthi rebels march during a military parade in Sanaa, Yemen in July 2017. The placards read: ‘Allah is the greatest. Death to America, death to Israel, a curse on the Jews, victory to Islam.’
REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Political fallout from the Vietnam War gave Congress more power to control foreign affairs, but they have been reluctant to use it.
On the same day, May 14, 2018, Palestinians protest near the border of Israel and the Gaza Strip (left) while dignitaries applaud the opening ceremony of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem (right).
AP/ADEL HANA, LEFT, AND SEBASTIAN SCHEINER
About the only thing the Trump administration’s peace plan has going for it is the fact that no one expects it to work. And the plan’s likely failure could trigger more Israeli-Palestinian violence.
From May 2, any countries buying oil from Iran can expect US sanctions.
Saudi students walk at the exhibition to guide job seekers at Glowork Women’s Career Fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 2, 2018.
Reuters/Faisal Al Nasser
Despite a repressive legal system that puts men in charge of female relatives, women in Saudi Arabia also attend school, become lawyers, see friends and fight for their rights.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino is engaged in heavy diplomacy to sell his plans to expend the 2022 World Cup.
EPA-EFE/Claudio Peri
Exporting nuclear technology is lucrative, but without strict safeguards, buyers could divert it into bomb programs. Why is Saudi Arabia shopping for nuclear power, and should the US provide it?
Severe malnutrition, like this Yemeni boy experienced, is one of the results of the Yemen conflict.
AP/Hani Mohammed
Jeff Bachman, American University School of International Service
The US has supported a Saudi-led military coalition that has inflicted profound and deadly damage on Yemen. A Senate vote could end what a human rights scholar says is US complicity in genocide.
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a 2014 press conference in Bahrain.
AP/Hasan Jamali
Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder happened at a consulate, a space not subject to the laws of the host country, Turkey. That means the alleged murderers did not fear interference by local authorities.
Honduran migrants at the border with Mexico in mid January. Many will continue north to the US border.
Esteban Biba/EPA
The Houthis belong to the Shiite branch of Islam. The Houthi insurgency began in the early 1990s, spurred in part by growing influence of different Sunni branches of Islam.
Rohingya women and children being moved on a truck south of Yangon, Myanmar.
AAP/EPA/Lynn Bo Bo
Senior Research Fellow, Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at IUPUI and Journalist-fellow, Religion and Civic Culture Center, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences