[escenic_image id="5512290"]The reactions and issues that were raised, within the United States and beyond, regarding Obama’s decision of sending 30…

[escenic_image id="5511958"] Joshua Craze and Mark Huband Hurst & Company, London 2009 There is perhaps no combination less familiar to the…

[escenic_image id="5511971"]Sayed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, the son of the cleric Sayed Mohammad Ali, was one of the leaders of the Islamic Dawa…

It is unclear whether it is accurate to describe the conflict in Yemen between the government and the Houthi insurgents as a sectarian conflict…

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[escenic_image id="5511961"]Jawad al-Bulani was appointed as Interior Minister of Iraq by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on 8 June 2006. He is a Shia…

[escenic_image id="5511953"]The Houthi phenomenon belongs to the Zaidi school of thought, which dates back to 1986. This school of thought first…

[escenic_image id="5512347"]Aaron David Miller is a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is also a…

The United States would welcome a transformation of its relations with Syria, as it desires good relations with all other countries, but it is…

[escenic_image id="5512341"] A new power balance in the Middle East To understand the new power balance in the Middle East, consider how the leaders…