The most recent parliamentary elections highlighted the rifts between the two dominant parties, the KDP and PUK.

When U.S. Patriots shot down an Iranian missile over Erbil on April 15, Kurds wondered why such defenses weren’t activated when they were attacked.

The great divide we are witnessing today in the Middle East is, in part, the result of European interference.

For survivors in the community, the prospect of going home is disappearing because of political inaction.

Türkiye is raising the heat on the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, denouncing its ties with the Syrian Democratic Forces.

With Gareth Smyth’s death, the Middle East has lost one of its most penetrating foreign journalists.

Iran’s hardline leaders seek to use recent elections in the country to Islamize society at all levels.

The political culture of the post-revolutionary period shows striking continuities with the prerevolutionary era.

When Naim Attallah died recently, few remembered the role he played in one of the Middle East’s worst financial scandals.

On Lebanon’s Independence Day, the question has meaning for a population whose leaders are masters of the meaningless.

Lebanon’s ad hoc approach to its myriad economic shocks will leave scars that are long-lasting.

In Ba‘lbek-Hermel, there was support for the Lebanese uprising until the main Shi‘a parties gained the upper hand.