Middle East & North Africa Archive

A year into the Israel-Hamas war, divisions among EU member states have left Brussels largely on the sidelines in efforts to bring the fighting to an end.

A weak government let Hezbollah to rise to power and turned Lebanon into a failed state. Israel’s war there could be the final nail in the coffin.

Israel is intent on destroying Hamas and Hezbollah. It doesn’t have a political plan for what happens after the war.

President Kais Saied won a second term in Tunisia’s managed election, a symbolic moment for the country.

The one-year mark for the Israel-Hamas war comes at an unsettling time for the region, which appears on the precipice of a wider war.

Bahrain recently released political prisoners at home and thawed ties with Iran, two related shifts that remain vulnerable to tensions.

The broadening of the Israel-Hamas war to include Hezbollah and Iran is not an accident. The war was always about Iran.

The full-blown regional conflict that observers have been so concerned about for nearly a year is now imminent, if it has not already arrived.

Despite the EU’s leverage in the Middle East, it has been unable to influence Israel’s war with its regional adversaries.

Libya’s fragile “cold peace” nearly collapsed amid a dispute over the central bank, revealing the vulnerabilities of its zero-sum politics.