Middle East

A picture taken from the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights shows a F-15 fighter jet plane over Hermon Mount near the Syrian border during celebrations marking Israel's 73rd Independence Day (Yom HaAtzmaut) on April 15, 2021.

Israel Says It Struck Targets in Syria in Retaliation for a Missile Attack

The exchange marks the most serious violence between Israel and Syria in ye...

The exchange marks the most serious violence between Israel and Syria in years and points to likely Iranian involvement

A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a health services center in Rehovot, central Israel, on Jan. 14, 2021.

Israel Is Leading the World in COVID-19 Vaccination. But Palestinians Aren't on the List

Can Israel’s vaccination program be fully successful if Palestinians are no...

Can Israel’s vaccination program be fully successful if Palestinians are not inoculated too?

A Decade After the Arab Spring, These Activists Are Finding New Ways to Fight for Progress

The Arab Spring began in Tunisia, where 28 days of protests ended 24 years ...

The Arab Spring began in Tunisia, where 28 days of protests ended 24 years of a dictator’s rule. The next day, Jan. 15, 2011, students in Yemen called for demonstrations against the strongman there. A...

An Israeli soldier checks the authorisation of a Palestinian man taking his donkey to harvest olives on his land, which was divided by Israel's controversial separation barrier, near the West Bank village of Bayt Awwa, on October 12, 2020.

What a Biden Presidency Might Mean for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

"The Palestinian leadership ... sees a Biden win as an opportunity to retur...

"The Palestinian leadership ... sees a Biden win as an opportunity to return to the negotiating table."

A woman looks at a caricature by Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj depicting the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, holding a dove with Israel's flag on it spitting in his face with Arabic writing referring to Israel's opposition to the sale of US F-35 aircrafts to the UAE, on August 27, 2020.

What the Arrest of a Prominent Jordanian Cartoonist Says About the State of Satire in the Arab World

The course of renowned Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj's decades-long care...

The course of renowned Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj's decades-long career has not always run smoothly. Becoming the first local satirist to portray Jordan's King Abdullah II in cartoon form in 2000 cost him his staff...

Protesters hold candles during a protest against the Mideast plan announced by the U.S. President Donald Trump, at the road in Jebaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Jan. 30, 2020. Trump's Mideast plan would create a disjointed Palestinian state with a capital on the outskirts of east Jerusalem, beyond the separation barrier built by Israel.

President Trump's Peace Plan Is the Latest in a Century of Outrageous Deals for the Palestinians

Once again, a tawdry deal has been done over the heads of the Palestinians,...

Once again, a tawdry deal has been done over the heads of the Palestinians, in their absence, and ignoring their rights – indeed their very existence as a people. As with the Balfour Declaration of...

Palestinian demonstrators burn images of US President Donald Trump (C) as they protest against a US brokered Middle East peace plan, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 29, 2020.

Trump’s Plan for Middle East Peace Hinges on Support From Arab Leaders. That's Looking Unlikely

Turkey's foreign minister described it as "stillborn"