Middle East

Are the economic protests in Iran turning into a political revolution?

Middle East Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - January 3, 2026.

Early January 2026 saw renewed unrest in Iran, with demonstrations rapidly spreading from smaller towns to major cities. The protests began in late December 2025, triggered...

Israel will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza

Middle East TA | AP Insight - December 30, 2025.

Israel said it will suspend more than two dozen humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international...

Israel’s democracy fails 7 October probe test

Middle East Ferry Biedermann - December 25, 2025.

Israel’s current failure to appoint an official state commission of inquiry into the events of 7 October 2023, when Hamas killed some 1,200 people and...

Turkey and Syria are looking for a solution to integrate Kurdish forces into the Syrian army

Middle East TA | AP Insight - December 22, 2025.

Turkey’s top diplomat and military and intelligence chiefs visited Syria on Monday as a deadline to implement a deal between authorities in Damascus and Kurdish-led...

Water scarcity and the tensions it generates will escalate in the Middle East

Middle East Shlomo Ben-Ami - December 17, 2025.

In early November, as Iran’s years-long drought reached an intensity “unprecedented in modern times,” crowds of worshippers gathered at a mosque in Tehran and tilted...

Risk of renewed violence and even partition of Yemen rises after southern offensive

Middle East Sharmila Devi - December 12, 2025.

Is Yemen heading towards partition? Following an offensive last week, UAE-backed separatists now control the oil-rich province of Hadhramaut and the rest of south Yemen, which...

Escalation in Yemen threatens to reignite civil war

Middle East TA | AP Insight - December 10, 2025.

A separatist group has seized control of an oil-rich region in southern Yemen, shattering a relative calm in the country’s stalemated civil war — a...

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