Trump’s quagmire of his own making has tanked his domestic popularity—even among his support base. Instead of the “no endless ...

Trump’s active Middle East policy reflects a striking paradox. The United States is more visibly engaged in the region than ...

With the US-Israeli air campaign intensifying, Iranian drone activity persisting across the Gulf, and the Trump ...

Gulf energy systems face unprecedented strain as conflict disrupts transit, production, and investment flows. The economic ...

As the Trump administration continues to send mixed signals on the war — vacillating between escalatory military threats and allusions to diplomatic progress — global markets are reacting sharply, ...

Libya’s stability has taken on renewed strategic importance as the impact of the United States and Israel’s war with Iran reverberates through global energy markets, pushing Brent crude prices to a ...

At the center of the speech was a familiar set of claims. Trump asserted that US forces had achieved rapid and decisive successes, that Iran’s military capabilities had been severely degraded, and ...

This special episode of Middle East Focus features a conversation from MEI’s Virtual Briefing Series. Host Alistair Taylor is joined by former National Security Council Senior Director Stephen ...

Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid is Professor of Political Science, School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He was visiting senior fellow at the ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, ...