The movement began with chants of “No fifth mandate!”Abdelaziz Bouteflika, president ofAlgeriasince 1999 and just shy of his 82nd birthday, was preparing to run for a fifth term in office, and…

The historianRichard Hofstadteronce observed that “third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die.” TheUnited Kingdomhas just got itself a new…

On the eve of Istanbul’s mayoral election, opposition candidateEkrem Imamogluwas drawing small crowds of the party faithful to low-key campaign rallies. Two days after his stunning upset victory…

Ghassan Salame: “There is a new millionaire every day in Libya, and the middle class is shrinking day by day …and the political class is shamefully corrupted.” …

On April 21Ukraine will hold the second round of presidential elections. The voters will have to decide between giving their current president a second chance, or entrusting theirfavoriteTV…

In March of 1969, Chinese troops ambushed and killed a Soviet border patrol on an island near the Chinese-Russian border. Fighting on and near the island lasted for months and ended with hundreds of…

The past decade has seen theproliferationof largely extremist and sectarian 24-hourreligious television channelsthroughout the Middle East and North Africa. Numbering in the hundreds, they reach a…

The latest general election was one of the most highly contested in Israeli history. As of the writing of this article, both Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and opposition leader Benny Gantz’s Blue…

The Trump administration is beginning to prepare its allies for a spring release of its long-awaited “ultimate deal” for Middle East peace. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in…

Omar al-Bashir was born on 1 January 1944 into a peasant family in Hosh Bannaga, north of the capital, Khartoum Sudan, which until independence in 1955 was part of the Kingdom of Egypt…