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What Happens Next in Syria After Turkey's Invasion

By Ian Bremmer

Al-Qaeda Bomb Maker Killed Two Years Ago: White House

By Madeleine Carlisle

Palestinians Respond to Netanyahu’s Annexation Plans

By Dalia Hatuqa / Ramallah, West Bank

Israel Is Escalating Its Shadow War With Iran. Here's What to Know

By Joseph Hincks
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Read the Transcript of TIME's Interview With Benjamin Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down with TIME correspondents Brian Bennett and Joseph Hincks at his residence in Jerusalem on June 25. The following excerpts from the conversation have been condensed and edited for...

By Brian Bennett and Joseph Hincks

How U.S. Allies in the Middle East are Responding to Rising Tensions with Iran

The impact of escalation is likely to be most acute in the Gulf region

By Joseph Hincks

Two Oil Tankers Attacked in the Middle East

The attack echoes one last month

By Jamie Ducharme

'Fighting But No Progress' in Libya's Capital. Inside the Surreal Siege of Tripoli

While the world’s attention has been everywhere else, Libya remains in chaos. The capital city, Tripoli, home of the government recognized by the U.N., is under siege by the forces of General Khalifa Haftar, who...

By Joseph Hincks

The Palestinian Issue Used to Be a Major Factor in Israeli Elections. Here’s Why It Hasn’t Been This Time

Significant disagreement on the issue was rarely even noted, let alone debated, in the run-up to the election

By Dov Waxman

After the ‘War of Annihilation’ Against ISIS

Homes make a city. More than buildings, roads, schools, markets, hospitals and shops, it’s homes and the people who live in them that create the life of a place. The Islamic State of Iraq and...

By Victor J. Blue

On Historic Trip to Arabian Peninsula, Pope Francis Tries to Bridge Gulfs

The first-ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam, was meant to build bridges between faiths. But shortly after Pope Francis touched down in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab...

By Billy Perrigo

Why Arab Regimes Are Using White Nationalist Lies to Attack Muslim-American Politicians

Regime-backed Saudi media is attacking three progressive, Muslim-American politicians as religious radicals — echoing the same talking points made by white nationalist extremists. Go ahead and read that sentence again.One recent article from Al-Arabiya, a...

By Abdul El-Sayed

What Happened to My Friend Jamal Khashoggi Shows How Saudi Arabia Spreads Fear and Buys the West's Silence

Tawakkol Karman, who won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, on how the death of Jamal Khashoggi reflects Saudi policy in Yemen and beyond

By Tawakkol Karman

Nick McDonell Counts the Innocent Lives Lost in the Post-9/11 Wars

Conflict journalism tends to attract a type: seekers willing to risk a violent, premature death and clean worldview in the pursuit of something as amorphous and unknowable as “truth.” Reconciling the power of bearing witness...

By Matt Gallagher

What the Oslo Accords Mean to Palestinians, 25 Years On

Signed 25 years ago today, Oslo was meant to offer a path to peace in the Middle East

By Maen Hammad

Why Trump's Closure of the Palestinian Mission Could Backfire

Coming after heated Palestinian-U.S. relations in recent months, the mission's closure has become a major flashpoint

By Ghaith al-Omari

How a Forgotten Rivalry Between Superpowers Helped Shape the Modern Middle East

Oil and the vast profits that it generated influenced almost everything that happened after 1947 in this story

By James Barr

Idlib Could Be the Last Major Battlefield of the Syrian Civil War. But Assad Won’t Take It Easily

On Aug. 9, the Syrian army dropped leaflets on the province of Idlib telling residents that “the war is nearing its end” and urging them to cooperate with government forces. One showed grainy pre-war images...

By Rebecca Collard/Beirut

When War Goes Off Script

What do we call the current phases of the wars in Syria and Iraq? And would any label make the world pay attention, more than just fleetingly?For many outside observers, what happens in the two...

By Alia Malek

A New Law Shifts Israel Away From Democracy

Experts say the new law essentially makes discrimination constitutional

By Ilene Prusher
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