The final constitutional hours were accelerating inside the corridors of Iraq’s ruling Shiite Coordination Framework, while the pace of bilateral and group meetings intensified in parallel.

Two months in, the costs of the war continue to mount — in lives, physical destruction, and countless secondary effects. It ...

Even now, Iraqis continue to share a video on social media showing a campaign event from election season last October. At the ...

For more than half a century, the world has relied on one central framework to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons: the ...

In the Jordanian capital, Amman, Saudis and Houthis sat face to face in the latest announced meeting between the two sides. On April 19 and 20, the office of the UN Special Envoy to Yemen held ...

In Jeddah, where leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries are meeting for a consultative summit, the gathering does not appear to be a routine protocol event. Timing alone gives it ...

Only one monthly installment remained for “Umm Hassan” to recover the gold necklace she had pawned in exchange for a cash ...

A growing debate is unfolding in Egypt over debt, with media figures calling for it to be written off in the hope that doing so could support the economy at this stage. These calls were preceded ...

Iran put a new proposal on the table. Washington canceled the trip. Tehran’s new three-stage proposal puts Hormuz governance ...

In a single moment, the “Ras Laffan” facility in Qatar— the largest artery for exporting liquefied natural gas in the world — was transformed from an energy hub into the epicenter of a global ...

The ruling Shiite coalition in Iraq, the “Coordination Framework,” announced the nomination of businessman Ali al-Zaydi for the position of prime minister, thereby ending months of debate and ...

As the world chokes under the near-total closure of the Strait of Hormuz, attention is turning to Libya as a potential savior of global energy security. In principle, Libya’s geographic position ...