Middle East

A Kurdish flag has replaced the Iraqi flag flying over the disputed, oil-rich city of Kirkuk, in a clear symbol of how Iraq’s Kurds have benefited ……Read More

Iraq was a creation of the British following World War I out of disparate Ottoman provinces that had never had any coordinated existence. It is ……Read More

On New Year’s Eve 1977, President Jimmy Carter famously toasted the Shah at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran and declared, “Iran … is an island ……Read More

The heating up of the conflict in Iraq has once again brought the divisions in the Islamic world to the forefront.  While many of us ……Read More

As nuclear negotiations resume June 16 in Vienna, a new paper by a veteran US Iran expert and congressional analyst lays out options for unwinding US sanctions that include initial waivers ……Read More

One of a series of RAND perspectives on what Middle East and U.S. policy might look like in “the days after a deal”, this perspective examines the ……Read More