Lebanon is America’s next foreign policy win — if Washington acts now. The US has committed blood and treasure to neutralize Iran’s ability to project power and destabilize the Middle East. Lebanon is ...

The June 26 Trilateral Framework signed by Lebanon, Israel, and the United States is a remarkable breakthrough toward peace, but much work remains ahead. If the restoration of Lebanese state ...

A great prize lies unclaimed by the United States and its allies: Lebanon. Ever since Hizballah’s deadly attack against the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, which killed 241 American service ...

For decades, the romanticized myth of Lebanese laissez-faire has masked the stark reality of a state-managed oligopolistic economy. The current Lebanese regime does not govern; it operates as a Player ...

Keeping Iran — whose interest is instability, not peace — out of any Israeli-Lebanese agreement is critical. In this way alone, the Trilateral Framework Agreement is an improvement over the US-Iran ...

Fanar Haddad is a Senior Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute, Washington D.C. He has lectured ...

Long fragile and constrained by Israeli restrictions, the Palestinian economy is in dire straits. The focus since Hamas’ October 7 attack and the ensuing war has been on the devastation in Gaza. Yet ...

Once NATO's most reluctant member, Turkey hosts this week's summit in Ankara as wars in Ukraine and Iran — and Erdoğan's ties to President Trump — make it one of the alliance's most indispensable.

My experience is in the greater Middle East, more specifically wars in Lebanon (I served as the United States’ ambassador to this country in 1990-93), Iraq (I was ambassador in 2007-09), and ...

US President Donald Trump recently proposed that Syria intervene militarily against Hizballah in Lebanon. Is that a good idea? This episode of Middle East Focus features a recent MEI Virtual Briefing.

US President Donald Trump recently proposed that Syria intervene militarily against Hizballah in Lebanon. How would this unconventional proposal alter political, security, and diplomatic dynamics in ...

After the US-Israel-Iran war — and the strikes that followed the cease-fire — the Gulf states find themselves dangerously exposed. Host Alistair Taylor is joined by MEI Associate Fellow Gregory Gause ...