Syria has been beset with another round of deadly sectarian clashes, with hundreds reportedly killed last week, drawing renewed international involvement. Israel says its airstrikes in southern Syria ...

The Middle East Institute (MEI) is proud to announce that His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and ...

Israel Policy Forum (IPF) and the Middle East Institute (MEI) were pleased to to host a joint, on-the-record event examining ...

Ross Harrison is the author of Decoding Iran’s Foreign Policy, a new book published by I.B. Tauris. The Middle East is in a state of suspended animation, neither plunged into total war nor buoyed by ...

The MENA Energy Recap is a quarterly review of key energy developments that took place in the region from April through June of 2025 and what they signal in the months ahead. The Recap views these ...

Probably few if any Middle East analysts had Israeli airstrikes targeting key government installations of the Syrian state on ...

Shaib, discussed the future of US-Iran relations. The recent 12-day war saw coordinated US and Israeli airstrikes against key Iranian military officials and nuclear facilities. Washington is weighing ...

Join the Middle East Institute on Wednesday, July 16, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, for an on-the-record webinar exploring the prospects ...

Last June’s Israel-Iran conflict became a revealing stress test for Beijing’s Middle East strategy, its role in global diplomacy, and the coherence of what some have described as an emergent “Axis of ...

When the Israel-Iran war broke out and the United States decided to assist the Israeli side by striking Iran's nuclear ...

Following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on Dec. 8, 2024, after the rebel military operation “Deterrence of Aggression” and the establishment of a transitional government, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria ...

For much of the past two decades, ISIS has enjoyed favorable conditions in Syria, but since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024, dynamics have changed. With Assad’s departure, ISIS ...