Middle East
Coronavirus has exposed Iran’s rotten republic
What happens if what characterizes your government is sadism, an addiction to conspiracy theories and incompetence?
Israel has an antibody breakthrough
But will it be enough to defeat the disease?
What is the US Navy doing in the Persian Gulf?
American policy has become decoupled from American national interests
Could the COVID crash spark another Arab Spring?
If you are an oil-exporting state then your economic fortunes are tied to global demand — and this will continue to be depressed
Netanyahu’s wages of winning
The 14-page ‘coalition agreement’ sounds less like Gantz’s roadmap to power and more like a political suicide note, written for him by Netanyahu
Saudi Arabia may have won an oil truce — but a greater conflict now looms
Despite all the hype, oil prices rose only a few dollars on Monday, and even that rally has quickly fizzled out
Coronavirus is a ticking time-bomb for the Middle East’s old guard
Conflict won’t end and over-centralized states will struggle to reform
Jews have always been blamed for plagues — coronavirus is no different
Coronavirus has shrunk the world’s attention to a degree previously unseen in our lifetimes
Israel’s draconian lockdown isn’t doing enough to stop coronavirus
Jerusalem now seems like a ghost town
Spare a thought for Syria during the coronavirus crisis
In northwest Syria, there are just 1,937 hospital beds to serve a population of three million people
Iran’s coronavirus tragedy is depressingly predictable
Times are tough. But then they always are
Does Israel’s coronavirus crackdown go too far?
Police wearing white smocks and protective gear now tour the streets in an attempt to hunt down quarantine evaders and detain them
Crude tactics: Russia and Saudi Arabia are at war over oil prices
Their game of chicken has hit world markets almost as hard as coronavirus has
Will coronavirus lead to a US war with Iran?
Tehran’s virus troubles could allow Shia militias to attack US forces in Iraq
Shia chaos
The militia that’s holding Iraq hostage
BREAKING: Pompeo to sign historic peace agreement with Taliban
Talks resumed after the Taliban promised that they would be open to reducing violence
The critics are wrong to scoff at Trump’s Israel-Palestine deal
Unlike his predecessors, Trump appreciates that geopolitical realities in the Holy Land have changed
How far will Trump go in Iran?
The Tehran students were chanting in the streets: ‘Our enemy is right here, they’re lying that it’s America’
Ten years on, the Arab Spring has only benefited the Islamists
The legacy of the revolution is hopelessness and helplessness
The ‘Iran Spring’ delusion
The democracy junkies are at it again — craving another fantasy revolution in a country they don’t understand
The Middle East mess has nothing to do with Donald Trump
On every count, other than creating permanent war, the Bush Doctrine failed
Could this be the beginning of the end for Iran’s mullahs?
It is easy to see a possible parallel here with the Soviet Union, whose leaders were rattling their sabers as loudly as ever as their socialist empire began to crumble
Why trouble in the Middle East no longer means an oil price hike
America is less dependent on the oil that comes out of the Middle East than at any point in modern times
Iran must pay the families of flight 752
It took four days for the Iranians to admit that they had downed the jet
Iran no longer alone
The American strategy of isolating and dividing Tehran has just been exploded
