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Topic: Middle East (page 8)

FILE - In this Thursday Jan. 6, 2011 file photo, a traditional dhow floats in the Corniche Bay area with tall buildings of the financial district in the background. The 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the wealthy oil- and gas-producing Gulf nation with giant look-at-me ambitions that belie its small size, is shaping up as a unique experience. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File) (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)

saudi's power play

Vijay Prashad - Alternet
(AP/Evan Vucci)

trump's new world order

Michael T. Klare - TomDispatch.com
A Syrian refugee girl holds her brother as she walks at an informal refugee camp, at Al-Marj town in Bekaa valley, east Lebanon Lebanon, Saturday, April 8, 2017. For the millions of Syrian refugees scattered across camps and illegal settlements across the region, the chemical attack on a town in northern Syria and subsequent U.S. strike was a rare moment when the world briefly turned its attention to Syria, before turning away again. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

The age of grief

Karen J. Greenberg - TomDispatch.com
Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani; Donald Trump (AP/Tim Ireland/Getty/Sean Gallup)

Behind the Qatar kerfuffle

Steven A. Cook
(Getty/AP/Shutterstock/Salon)

Trump makes a crisis worse

Heather Digby Parton
"False Dawn" by Steven Cook (Oxford University Press/Kaveh Sardari)

The Arab Spring was a shock

Steven A. Cook
Donald Trump; King Salman (AP/Evan Vucci)

Diplomat-in-chief

Jeremy Pressman - The Conversation
Donald Trump; King Salman (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump and the Saudis: Same old

Steven A. Cook
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The alt-right vs. Trump

Alexandra Rosenmann - Alternet
(Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Saudis’ den of extremism

Max Blumenthal - Alternet
(Getty/Michael Heiman/Salon)

45 blows against democracy

David Vine - TomDispatch.com
(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

syrians describe nightmare

Rania Khalek - Alternet
Recep Tayyip Erdogan; Donald Trump (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis/Evan Vucci)

Trump and Turkey: What's next?

Steven A. Cook
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; Mohammed bin Salman (AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/Getty/Mark Wilson)

Sunni vs Shia? Too simple

Steven A. Cook
(Ahrar al-Sham via AP, File)

Andrea Williams - The Conversation
(Getty/Molly Riley-Pool)

Matthew Rozsa
In this March 29, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at a women's empowerment panel in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The Republican attempt to repeal Obamacare is dead. Well, maybe the timing just isn’t right yet. Hey, this will be easy! This is never-say-die Washington, where big legislative proposals that are in the casket one day suddenly show signs of a shallow pulse the next. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (AP)

Michael J. Brenner - The Globalist
Marine Le Pen; Donald Trump (Afp/getty Images/Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Patrick Kovarik/Olivier Douliery - Pool/Photo Montage by Salon)

How failed wars shape fascism

Steven A. Cook
Dick Cheney; Donald Trump; Paul Wolfowitz (AP/Jim Bryant/Getty/Joe Raedle/Reuters/Yuri Gripas)

Neocons to the "rescue"

Heather Digby Parton
In this Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 photo, Smoke rises from explosions demolishing houses on the Egyptian side of the border town of Rafah as seen from the Palestinian side of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. With dynamite and heavy machinery, Egypt's army has been demolishing homes along its border with the Gaza Strip, after the military ordered residents out last week to make way for a planned buffer zone meant to stop militants and smugglers. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) (AP)

Danny Sjursen - TomDispatch.com
President Donald Trump listens in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Sixty-two percent of Americans turned thumbs down on Trump’s handling of health care during the initial weeks of his presidency, according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. It was his worst rating among seven issues the poll tested, which included the economy, foreign policy and immigration. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

William J. Astore - TomDispatch.com
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference about recent military actions and altered campaign promises. (AP)

A. Trevor Thrall - Cato Institute
A Syrian refugee girl holds her brother as she walks at an informal refugee camp, at Al-Marj town in Bekaa valley, east Lebanon Lebanon, Saturday, April 8, 2017. For the millions of Syrian refugees scattered across camps and illegal settlements across the region, the chemical attack on a town in northern Syria and subsequent U.S. strike was a rare moment when the world briefly turned its attention to Syria, before turning away again. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Taylor Link
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton - Alternet
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