Middle East
- Kristine Beckerle
- • November 7, 2018
BEIRUT — A Yemeni father’s voice, proudly telling us about his son, was nevertheless infused with sorrow: Ahmed was about 12 and smart. He lived with his father, his mother and his eight siblings until “the war came.” The…
- Categories: Middle East, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 27, 2018
The European Union, Germany, Norway, Ireland and Kuwait stepped in this week to donate a total of $118 million in financing to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Unrwa), after the…
- Categories: Climate Change, Geopolitics, Middle East, Refugees, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Karim Makdisi
- • September 11, 2018
BEIRUT — In late August, the United Nations Security Council unanimously renewed its peacekeeping operation in southern Lebanon, called Unifil. The less confrontational tone around the negotiation of Resolution 2433, contrasting with the heated debate on the renewal a…
- Categories: Middle East, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Mona Ali Khalil
- • September 6, 2018
It is entirely the United States’ prerogative to cut off its voluntary contributions to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or Unrwa. In her statements about why the Trump administration has decided…
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 20, 2018
As the attack on Hodeidah, a major port in western Yemen on the Red Sea, moves into its second week, led by the coalition of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the rest of the world seems to…
- Kacie Candela
- • May 28, 2018
From the start, it was a closely watched contest pitting Germany, Belgium and Israel against one another for their regional bloc’s two seats in the next term on the United Nations Security Council. Israel has never held a seat on…
- Categories: General Assembly, Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council
- Enrico Carisch
- • May 22, 2018
Mike Pompeo, in his first speech as Donald Trump’s new secretary of state, threatened United States’ allies: “You should know that we will hold those doing prohibited business in Iran to account.” Pompeo, speaking at the conservative Heritage Foundation…
- Categories: Middle East, Nuclear Disarmament, P5 Monitor, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 21, 2018
After a year of bombast and threats by Ambassador Nikki Haley and the ever-evolving Donald Trump administration, the tone appears to be turned down a few notches in the second year of the Trump presidency. But efforts to undermine…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 15, 2018
The message was blunt and judgmental as the United States delivered its ultimatum on the future of the United Nations mission in Western Sahara: “MINURSO is a peacekeeping mission that should have finished its job a long time ago….
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Irwin Arieff
- • May 13, 2018
Nikki Haley is the most popular member of Donald Trump’s national security team, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, which found that 63 percent of voters approve of the job she is doing as United States ambassador to…
- Enrico Carisch
- • May 10, 2018
What can the five remaining signatories to the Iran nuclear deal do now that the Trump administration has trampled on Security Council Resolution 2231 and its 13 binding decisions, adopted under Article 41 of the United Nations Charter? Sooner…
- Categories: Middle East, Nuclear Disarmament, P5 Monitor, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Enrico Carisch
- • May 7, 2018
The world will soon know the future of the Iran nuclear deal, when President Trump plans to announce his intentions on May 8 at 2 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time, from the White House. The decision follows intense jostling among…
- Categories: Middle East, Nuclear Disarmament, P5 Monitor, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Enrico Carisch
- • April 26, 2018
Two important global events that are about to happen may sound alluring to some Americans: first, the United States government may jettison or significantly alter the nuclear deal with Iran; and Chairman Kim Jong Un of North Korea will…
- Categories: Middle East, Nuclear Disarmament, P5 Monitor, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Johanna Higgs
- • April 20, 2018
ZAHEDAN, Iran — “They give all of the rights to men,” said Neda, a young woman living in Zahedan, a border city near Afghanistan and Pakistan, who did not want to reveal her last name. “You can never make…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, Women
- Irwin Arieff
- • April 15, 2018
Whatever else came out of the latest American-led strikes on Syrian chemical weapon sites, it put on display rare signs of diplomatic skill on the part of the Trump administration, even if those signs first surfaced at the Pentagon…
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