Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. The United States maintains a considerable military presence in the Middle East, with forces in more than a dozen countries and on ships ...

Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on almost every country in the world is causing shockwaves - and the Middle East and North Africa has not escaped. The US president announced the widest set ...

Though each crisis is driven by different, home-grown causes, “the question of who controls the Red Sea and who will ...