Middle East & North Africa

Iran is caught between a perceived need to retaliate to preserve its internal authority while fearing to escalate the conflict into full-scale war

An altercation between a cleric and an unveiled woman in Qom has become the latest cause celebre in Iran, widening rift between the regime and society

Germany has been among Israel's strongest supporters since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, providing both diplomatic backing and significant arms transfers.

The ISIS-K attack on Moscow reflects the group’s ambitions to hit closer and more vulnerable adversaries rather than focus on enemies abroad like the U.S.

The European focus on airdrops and sea deliveries risks shifting attention away from the leverage the EU has over Israel but declines to wield

Ebrahim Raisi is only the latest Iranian president to fall afoul of Supreme Leader Khamenei for poor performance in office

Syria is still too shattered by civil war to do much to bolster Hamas beyond using powerful rhetoric in support of the Palestinian cause

Nonproliferation experts are scrambling for new ideas to avoid what some have called a binary choice between bombing Iran and Iran with a bomb