Shaib, discussed the future of US-Iran relations. The recent 12-day war saw coordinated US and Israeli airstrikes against key ...

Last June’s Israel-Iran conflict became a revealing stress test for Beijing’s Middle East strategy, its role in global ...

US President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the third time in his second term this week, ...

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

The Middle East Institute (MEI) is pleased to welcome Amb. David Hale as a Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow. One of the most ...

Domestic politics has taken center stage in the United States as Congress struggles to pass President Donald Trump’s proposed ...

On June 19, false reports of an Israeli strike on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant sparked alarm across the Gulf. Though denied ...

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 ...

Hosts Alistair Taylor and Matthew Czekaj speak with MEI Senior Fellow Mohammed Soliman about President Donald Trump’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, which yielded a wave of major ...

On March 10, 2025, Ahmed al-Sharaa, the president of Syria, and Mazloum Abdi, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces, signed a historic agreement, ending a long-running divide between ...

The current Israeli government’s extremism encompasses two entwined trends in Israeli political culture. The first is the rise and mainstreaming of the ideological settler movement and far-right ...