Middle East

Polling data suggest that Saudi millennials are more focused on domestic reforms than foreign conflict and want someone their age to run the country....

Ten years have passed since Israel and Hezbollah last confronted one another in an all-out war on the battlefield. This war—which to the international community is known as the 2006 Lebanon War; to the Lebanese and their brethren as...

The Moshe Dayan Center Tel Aviv University In honor of the 86th Saudi National Day in September, the Vice President of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced that Al-Sufouh Street,...

Exiled from his homeland and with a notorious intelligence agency attempting to assassinate him, one could excuse Makiya for claiming the mantle of victimhood. Yet, in an all-too-rare insistence on principle, he refused. In the preface to the 1998...

Shimon Peres: Inspirational or exasperating? Both. Wise or foolish? Both. Selfless or selfish? Both. Humble or egotistical? Both, in his own way. A complicated and contradictory man he was. One can only hope that, when all is said...

In this startling essay on the attempted coup in Turkey, FPRI senior fellow and prize-wining Princeton historian Michael Reynolds shakes up the way we think about Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Fethullah Gülen, and the United States. He tells...

The National Interest Military attacks against humanitarian workers and facilities have repeatedly been in the news in the past months; from Afghanistan, to Syria, to South Sudan, among others. Last month, international news outlets extensively reported on the deliberate...

The Hill This week, during my visit to the U.N. General Assembly in New York, a text message from the police lit up my mobile phone — and that of millions of others in the area — warning to...