Please join the Middle East Institute (MEI) for a half-day conference focused on Syria one year into its historic transition.

We heard with horror that two US service members were shot the day before Thanksgiving while performing their duties — on US ...

Available in print and electronically, and with a foreword by top national security and cyber expert Richard A. Clarke, this is the first anthology of its kind to specifically detail cyber warfare in ...

In less than a year, this Syrian transitional government has received official visits in Damascus from more governments ...

A key player in the oil industry and central to producer-consumer relations, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was formed by major oil exporters to stabilize prices and ...

Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince, prime minister, and main decision-maker in Saudi Arabia, left Washington and his ...

The MENA Energy Recap is a quarterly review of key energy developments that took place in the region from July through ...

When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visits the White House to meet with US President Donald Trump on 18 November, ...

When Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on November 10, he is expected to announce that Syria has joined the International Coalition to ...

On November 18, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is scheduled to make his first trip to Washington since 2018. In a new MEI Policy Memo, Daniel Benaim breaks down why it matters for the US and ...

On October 31, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution centering Morocco’s autonomy plan as the basis for resolving the Western Sahara conflict. Of Rabat’s recent diplomatic victories ...