The war-time disruptions of international shipping transiting the Strait of Hormuz are spreading through the fertilizer ...

As the third-largest producer in OPEC+, Abu Dhabi’s departure will require a long-term recalibration of the group’s strategy.

While Egypt is not in the direct line of fire in the US-Israeli war with Iran, its economy is acutely vulnerable to the ...

The Middle East is both central to key United States interests and prone to instability. Yet US national security and defense ...

Within weeks of the Strait of Hormuz closure, fertilizer prices began to rise sharply. Tanker traffic through the strait, which handles one-third of the global fertilizer trade, fell by 90%. Across ...

For over a decade, US presidents have sought to deemphasize the Middle East and turn America’s strategic focus to other, ostensibly more important global priorities. Such thinking, however, ...

A brutal power struggle between Sudan’s army, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and a paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), plunged the country into a tragic civil war three years ago. By ...

On April 25, municipal elections took place across the West Bank and in one municipality in Gaza. Next month, on May 14, Fatah — the main ruling party in the Palestinian Authority — will hold its ...

The limelight for American foreign policy shifts to Beijing this month, where US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet on May 14-15 to address a long agenda of unresolved ...

Syria takes control of all bases where US forces were deployed Before joining MEI, he was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Doha and a senior consultant to the multinationally backed ...

Kenneth M. Pollack, PhD., is Vice President for Policy at the Middle East Institute. Previously he was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he worked on Middle Eastern ...

Iranians fear ‘open season’ on themselves by hands of regime, says Middle East expert Iranians fear ‘open season’ on themselves by hands of regime, says Middle East expert Nazee Moinian holds a PhD in ...