Middle Orient

Announcement of its exit on Friday comes as Gulf producers are already struggling to ship exports through the Strait of Hormuz. The United ‌Arab Emirates has announced its decision to quit OPEC and OPEC+ to focus on “national interests”, dealing ⁠a heavy ⁠blow to the oil-exporting groups at a time …

The United States has been flying cash — around $400-$500 million at a time — to Baghdad for decades. However, The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the U.S. Treasury had partially suspended dollar shipments tied to Iraq’s oil exports until Baghdad cracks down on Iranian-linked militias. Since the outbreak …

On April 24, 2026, a day before Iran conveyed its new proposal to the U.S. regarding lifting the U.S. blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a guarantee of freedom of passage in the Strait, Majlis Deputy Speaker Ali Nikzad said in a speech to residents …

A prerequisite of serious talks is that the country’s leadership consolidates majority national support for such a process. When President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called for negotiations with Israel several weeks ago, their primary objective was to derail the Israeli onslaught against Lebanon. To an extent they …

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Islamist groups and currents entered Syria’s political and organizational life after the fall of the former Syrian regime, following decades in which they had either been confined to a traditional religious current that avoided politics or, when they tried to enter politics or civic work outside that traditional structure, were …

Following Ursula von der Leyen’s gaffe equating Turkey to Russia and China, relations with Ankara risk deteriorating even further. Without better, more consistent diplomatic messaging, how can the EU pretend to be a geopolitical power? The importance of consistency in foreign policy has rarely been demonstrated as vividly as when …

Malgré les affirmations répétées de Trump selon lesquelles l’Iran serait en train de capituler, Téhéran estime avoir les trois “M” de son côté : “ munitions, marchés et les élections de mi-mandat”. Le ministre iranien des Affaires étrangères Abbas Araghchi effectue actuellement une tournée stratégique afin de se préparer aux …

Property Restitution, Security Conditions, and Minority Rights in Northwest Syria The Afrin Region and the Kurdish Populations The following report, commissioned as a field assignment by the Middle East Forum, is an in-depth examination of the Afrin region located in northwest Syria along the border with Turkey. The region is …

Les Houthis ont juré de fermer le détroit de Bab el-Mandeb, vital pour le commerce de l’énergie, si les États-Unis continuent d’entraver la paix au Moyen-Orient. En réalité, l’enjeu n’est plus tactique. Il est civilisationnel. La maîtrise des détroits est le dernier rempart d’une souveraineté retrouvée pour les peuples de …