The May 6 cease-fire between the United States and the Houthi militia in Yemen has had a consolidating effect on the balance ...

Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in ...

Egypt and Saudi Arabia share many foreign policy and regional security objectives and have a long and complicated ...

Domestic politics has taken center stage in the United States as Congress struggles to pass President Donald Trump’s proposed ...

On June 19, false reports of an Israeli strike on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant sparked alarm across the Gulf. Though denied ...

This past Monday, after 12 days of war, Israel and Iran agreed to a cease-fire brokered by the US and Qatar. Three key ...

The Middle East Institute (MEI) is honored to welcome Dr. Barham A. Salih, former President of the Republic of Iraq, as its ...

The United States has struck three nuclear facilities in Iran in the midst of the Israel-Iran crisis. MEI will host another ...

The United States is now at war with Iran, or at least something dangerously close to it. The June 21 US strikes on key ...

Past foreign-led efforts to bring about regime change in the Middle East have all too often unleashed instability, extremism, and enduring strategic risk. A different future with Iran is possible — if ...

Omer Niazi is the MEI Department of State Black Sea Title VIII Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute. He is also a Policy Fellow at the Fund for Constitutional Government, a Mason Fellow at the ...