Middle East and North Africa

Whether it’s Iran, China, Cuba, or immigration, U.S. President Joe Biden often finds himself stymied by his predecessor’s foreign policy.

Spain has traded five decades of neutrality on Western Sahara while getting nothing but a spyware scandal in return.

On Sunday, Lebanese go to the polls for the first time since their 2019 uprising.

An abandoned oil tanker with more than 1 million barrels of crude is rusting off the coast.

The diplomatic resets and outreach underway are just competition by another means.

Big-budget thrillers are now being filmed in the kingdom, but culture clashes could hinder the industry’s success.

Biden faces pressure to secure release of Americans wrongfully detained abroad.

Gulf Arab countries are copying Qatar in hedging against U.S. power. Iran is thrilled.

A food crisis looms as the price of wheat and other staples surges.

But the group is hoping for a resurgence while the West is distracted in Ukraine.

Iran is a cautionary tale that stubborn autocracies can’t be disciplined with sanctions.

The world’s sixth-largest oil producer still suffers from fuel shortages and power outages.

Russian mercenaries fill Mali vacuum as European powers pursue an exit.

Deporting Uyghur refugees is inhumane and illegal.

The loss of Ukrainian and Russian wheat can be made up elsewhere.

The Kremlin is reviving the brutal methods it used in Syria, and the World Health Organization is refusing to name the crime and its perpetrator.

It’s time to recognize they were living on borrowed time.

A revived nuclear pact could benefit Washington and Tehran but is proving a hard sell.

An Iranian nuclear deal is more important than the symbolism of a terrorist list.