On June 10, 2025, General Michael Langley, Commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), issued a sobering assessment before the House Armed Services Committee. [i] While affirming that Camp Lemonnier ...

In the wake of Midnight Hammer and Rising Lion, the Islamic Republic did not collapse as many hastily predicted. Bruised but far from broken, Tehran will grow more paranoid, more calculating, and ...

Regime change is sometimes simple but managing its consequences is always messy. As cerebral a president as Barrack Obama was, he ruefully acknowledged as much when he told Fox News correspondent ...

Between December 2024 and March 2025, Iran conducted one of its most robust military exercises in decades. Eqtedar (authority or power) and Zulfiqar (sword of revered fourth Islamic caliphate and ...

Russia’s posture in the Middle East has been transformed–its major partners and allies have been humbled. It is now very much in a transitory stage, adjusting to new challenges and opportunities on ...

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Manara Magazine’s forthcoming issue will highlight the ongoing policymaking challenges that countries most affected by climate change in the Middle East and North Africa face, as well as analyse case ...

As the Trump administration reopened channels to negotiate a new nuclear deal with Iran in recent months, Israel—which has been sounding the alarm about the Islamic Republic’s regime for years—adopted ...

The State of the MENA Region:Lessons and Projections 2020 #1Published on 12th May, 2020 In this issue Published by the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum (MENAF) in Cambridge, England. ISSN ...