In South Sudan, the causes of famine run deeper than just food shortage. Since gaining independence from its northern neighbor in 2011,...

An increase in the price of eggs rarely triggers any sort of commotion, let alone nationwide unrest and widespread rioting. But in Iran,...

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which largely consists of Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), have recently taken over the...

In Aden, South Yemen’s largest city and the country’s most prominent port, Yemeni flags are increasingly hard to come by; instead, the...

Up until recent years, India-Middle East relations were largely driven by economic considerations. In the latter half of the 20th...

The Kurdish quest for an independent state has persisted for over a century. Yet, the territory known as Kurdistan today remains divided...

As violence continues to plague war-torn South Sudan, even after efforts at ceasefires, refugees continue to pour out of the world’s...

“Before the drought, I would have to dig 60 or 70 meters to find water. Then I had to dig 100 to 200 meters,” said former Syrian...

On September 16, 2016, international human rights lawyer and red carpet frequenter Amal Clooney delivered a damning speech in front of...

In the wake of Yahya Jammeh’s arrest at the hands of Senegalese forces, Vladimir Putin’s return to one of his alleged favorite pastimes,...

In 2016, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts in negotiating a peace deal that...

On October 8, 2016, a U.S.-backed airstrike led by Saudi Arabia “wrongly” targeted a funeral ceremony in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, killing...

Western countries routinely and almost systematically regard the Middle East as a historically conflict-ridden region, and the...

Women’s education level is often considered a significant indicator of modernity and socio-economic progress. Today, there is a major...

During the Cold War, global politics were characterized by the notion of bipolarity: The United States and the Soviet Union were...

On August 19, 1953, tragedy struck Tehran, Iran’s capital city. Democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown...

This July, a sea of red flags emboldened with crescent moons swept over a reeling nation. Just two weeks after Turkey’s failed coup...

In a country accustomed to tumult, a single dam is causing ripples of turbulence. Over 60 years in the making, Turkey’s Ilisu Dam’s...

On July 23, 2012,  Jehad Sadeq Aziz Salman and Ebrahim Ahmed Radi al-Moqdad took to the streets of the Bahraini capital Manama’s...

Mainstream American mass media tends to suggest that the rise of ISIL in the Middle East has been predominantly countered by the efforts...