Network analysis uncovers the informal power structures that sustain regimes in MENA. Political systems in the region often rely on patronage networks, tribal affiliations, and military elites. This ...

The Middle East needs U.S. foreign policy to address two key threats: a weakened but unpredictable Iran and the resurgence of Sunni extremism in Syria. As President Trump begins his second term, he ...

Egypt's demographic and economic challenges have weakened its position, creating a vacuum that has been filled by an ...

Arab leaders have warmly welcomed Ahmed al-Sharaa as Syria's interim president, with close allies of his deposed predecessor ...

Sharaa, promised Thursday to hold a "national dialogue conference" in his first address to the nation since the fall of ...

President Donald Trump returned to the White House, facing a world that is arguably more complicated than when he left the building four years earlier. The war in ...

Military reserve forces in the Middle East make up an important component of any army within the region. These units provide additional manpower and capabilities to regular military forces, should the ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...

Ahmed al Sharaa was declared the new president of Syria in the transitional government that came into power after the ...

In his speech, Al-Sharaa also vowed to pursue those guilty of war crimes during Syria's bloody civil war, which started in ...

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani visited Damascus on Thursday and met newly declared transitional President Ahmed ...

What does the side that has scored the fewest goals in the 2024-25 Roshn Saudi League do to solve their goalscoring woes?