Afghanistan Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said that the Taliban were committed to the 1973 water treaty between Afghanistan and Iran. But he added that “the drought in Afghanistan and the ...
“a significant infrastructure and connectivity project to enhance broader transcontinental integration between Asia, the Arabian Gulf, and Europe, or what I call the Eurasian rimland. It seeks to ...
“The Chinese are adept at using economic power to build influence…[and] the Americans don’t have that same capacity anymore,” said Robert S. Ford, former U.S. ambassador to Syria and senior fellow at ...
“Any supply disruption to Spain will be felt as higher prices for consumers on European supermarket shelves approximately four months from now,” said Michaël Tanchum, an expert on food security and a ...
As Israeli politics becomes increasingly right-wing and confrontational towards Palestinians, "instant access to that reality through social media" accelerates the trend shown in the new Gallup data, ...
At the heart of the unrest are fears that President Macky Sall will run for a third term. The constitution limits presidents to two five-year terms. But Sall argues that a constitutional reform ...
John Yang: Now the Syrian regime wants to control aid delivery into these rebel-held territories through Damascus. Charles Lister is a senior fellow and director of the Syria and Countering Terrorism ...
Karam Shaar, a Syria expert at the Washington-based Middle East Institute, said there have been rumors of U.N. corruption in Syria for years but the AP report showed that “they are more extreme than ...
On Saturday, Hossein Salami, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, made one of the regime’s starkest threats yet, warning that Saturday would be the “last day” of the unrest and ordering protesters ...
Washington, D.C. - The Middle East Institute (MEI) hosted former commanders of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), high-profile industry leaders, and former senior government officials on Thursday, ...
“There’s clearly a lot of anger about both the immediate response,” Howard Eissenstat, a nonresident scholar at the Middle East Institute, a Washington D.C., think tank, said. He added that Erdogan’s ...
Rose Issa is a curator, writer, and producer who has championed visual art and film from the Middle East for more than 30 years. She has lived in London since the 1980s, showcasing upcoming and ...