[caption id="attachment_55255200" align="aligncenter" width="4112"] Iraqi women pose for a photo in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on December 10, 2017, during a gathering celebrating the end of the three…

[caption id="attachment_55255129" align="aligncenter" width="787"] Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres- RSF) activists take part in a protest in front of an Iran Air agency in Paris,…

[caption id="attachment_55255134" align="aligncenter" width="3369"] President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin (R) meets with President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani…

[caption id="attachment_55255140" align="aligncenter" width="6016"] The sun cuts through the smoke as an Iraqi soldier walks into the center of a burning oil wells, set ablaze by retreating ISIS…

[caption id="attachment_55255137" align="aligncenter" width="4928"] Taliban fighters stand with their seized weapons as they are presented to the media in Kabul on January 5, 2016. (Getty)[/caption]…

[caption id="attachment_55255084" align="aligncenter" width="5724"] Young female supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah Shiite movement hold a giant symbolic key of Palestinian homes during a rally held…

[caption id="attachment_55255080" align="aligncenter" width="6432"] Iran's President Hassan Rouhani ( Getty Images)[/caption] by:Hanin Ghaddar As the New Year unfolds, the Middle East looks more…

by R. Daniel Kelemen* On Wednesday, December 20, the European Commission took a historic step to defend the rule of law in Poland. For the first time ever, the Commission triggered Article 7(1)…

[caption id="attachment_55255102" align="aligncenter" width="5246"] French President Emmanuel Macron listens to employees during a visit to the Whirlpool factory in Amiens, northern France, on…

[caption id="attachment_55255072" align="aligncenter" width="7360"] A Rohingya refugee boy desperate for aid cries as he climbs on a truck distributing aid for a local NGO near the Balukali refugee…