The US-Israeli war with Iran has catalyzed shifting alliances and forced a rethink of security assumptions in the Middle East ...

Across North Africa the impacts are multiplying. Morocco faces disruptions to its own sulfur imports. OCP Group, the world’s ...

In the early hours of Sunday, May 3, Jordanian F-16 fighter jets crossed into Syrian airspace and launched strikes on at least six locations in the southern province of Sweida. In a statement issued ...

The conflict in Iran and restrictions on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz have upended global fertilizer supply chains, putting tens of millions at risk of severe hunger over the coming months.

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, ...

In September 2022, urban centers across Iran reverberated with the sound of protest. The scale and uninhibited nature of these demonstrations against the repressive Islamic Republic were in and of ...

A key player in the oil industry and central to producer-consumer relations, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was formed by major oil exporters to stabilize prices and ...

After a grueling 20-year campaign, America concluded its war in Afghanistan where it started: with the Taliban in charge. But this isn’t your father’s Taliban. In recognition of their need for a ...

According to Nicholas Smith’s history of colonialism in the southern Red Sea, the port of Obock was acquired by the French in 1862 from the local ruler, the sultan of Tadjoura, and this was later ...

After more than two weeks of sustained public protests against the regime, the Iranian government has grown increasingly desperate to quell what has metastasized into a nationwide demonstration.

This is the third in a series of articles examining and rebutting the shu al-badīl? (“What’s the alternative?”) argument in the run-up to this year’s presidential elections, when Bashar al-Assad, ...