Iran: Trump’s actions, particularly the airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear program in conjunction with Israel’s air campaign in June 2025, appear to have profoundly frightened and weakened the regime.

The Middle East Institute (MEI) invites you to join a breaking news briefing on the ongoing joint US-Israeli military operation in Iran, targeting the country’s military and leadership. US and Israeli ...

US President Donald Trump hosted an idiosyncratic gathering of global representatives in Washington on February 19 that included some key Middle East figures. They all came together under the banner ...

The Abraham Accords were the first Trump administration’s most significant diplomatic achievement. They tackled at once several strategic objectives. They represented a means to consolidate a ...

The global response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has focused new attention on friction between the United States and its traditional partners in the Gulf and reinforced skepticism regarding the ...

Sex tourism and sex trafficking in Iran are increasing. One contributing cause is the practice of sigheh. Sigheh (also known by its Arabic name “nikah mut‘ah”) allows men to marry a woman for a ...

The final days of 2025 marked a turning point in the Middle East, as competition between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Yemen spilled out into the open. Tensions between the two ...

During the waning days of the Trump administration, 22 Republican Representatives, led by Doug Lamborn of Colorado, sent a letter to the president urging him to erase Palestine refugees and their ...

After 10 months of US-mediated talks failed to achieve an integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) into Syria’s transitional state, hostilities erupted in early January — first in Kurdish ...