Dear Colleagues, Iran is struggling at home. Gas prices are about to jump. There are signs that an increasingly anxious ...

I came to the W&OD Trail to clear my head, nothing more. But a few minutes in, I slowed down—not from tiredness, but because the trail felt like it was holding a story I didn’t know. I realized I wasn ...

In the early hours of Thursday, December 4, the name “Wadi Hadramout” echoed once again after fierce clashes erupted on the plateau surrounding the Petromasila oil facilities between forces from ...

In a year marked by decreasing oil prices and mounting uncertainty in global markets, Saudi Arabia is heading into a new fiscal year with a projected deficit of 165 billion riyals, according to ...

The joint missile defense emerged as the most prominent issue on the agenda of the 46th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit, held on December 3, 2025, in Bahrain. The attention was not ...

More than 40 years after Kuwait enacted its Personal Status Law, the country is now confronting a wide-ranging draft amendment to one of the legal frameworks most closely tied to the daily lives ...

Beirut’s Southern Suburb — universally known simply as the Dahieh — needs no introduction. The phrase alone commands attention in Lebanon, across the region and beyond. Over the years, the Dahieh ...

China is upping its security game in the Middle East– and Washington is taking notice. While the U.S. remains far and away the biggest supplier of weapons and the preeminent outside military ...

In one of the most significant legal and political jolts Israel has seen in years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday submitted a formal request to President Isaac Herzog seeking a ...

The war that drove Mayyada and her two young daughters from southern Lebanon last year continues to cast shadows on every part of their life in Beirut. They fled in September 2024. They hoped the ...

Turkey has moved so far into the center of Middle Eastern power that even its rivals can no longer plan without it. In this conversation with Soner Çağaptay, director of the Turkish Research ...

China already wields considerable power and influence in the Middle East. For many years it has been the top trading partner of almost all the countries in the 22-member Arab League. Since 2013 it ...