Middle East

Educated in a Canadian-funded school, they became Afghanistan’s best and brightest young women. Today they live in fear, abandoned to the Taliban.

Opinion: The papal visit challenges the contention that there is an unbridgeable gap between Islam and Christianity

Prince William’s Middle East tour, which includes the first official visit to Israel by a senior British royal, will be fraught—and it’s unclear if he’s up for the challenge

Opinion: The prospect of major bloodshed at the hands of the state looms large. If that happens, the ensuing domino effect could create a volatile situation.

On the two-year anniversary of Alan Kurdi’s death, Abdullah and Tima Kurdi discuss his legacy and their hopes for the future.

Both sides in the Great War strove to create tensions within their enemies. And Islamic loyalties were a prime target.

A new book reveals surprising economic subterfuge behind a bloody conflict that still shapes the region

It would be simplistic to say the sectarian outrage over Saudi Arabia’s execution of a Shia cleric was only religion-driven—and would ignore key history

William McCants on the apocalyptic End Times prophecies that drive Islamic State, why it’s so dangerous—and why it is so difficult to defeat

Thousands of years of history are unravelling as minority faiths flee religious persecution

Can the place where the revolution began make democracy work amid the chaos of the Middle East?

Russia’s power is re-emerging everywhere