A surprise rebel offensive surges onwards after taking control of the city of Aleppo.
While Saudi Arabia will not endorse a return to maximum pressure on Iran, it does not want to risk its security alliance with the United States.
An incoming Trump administration plans to ransack the civil service. But it needs reform, not demolition.
Adel Abdel Ghafar is the Director of the Foreign Policy and Security Program at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He says Blinken's comments will not have any impact on the realties on the ground in Gaza.
According to Middle East Council on Global Affairs visiting fellow Ahmed Morsy, if the Trump administration “returns to transactional politics and deals in the Middle East, as it is likely to do, Egypt must be prepared with medium- to long-term strategies to [secure] influence” on the future management of regional conflicts in line with Egyptian interests.
Ahmed Morsy, a visiting fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, said in a statement that Trump and his team are “likely to push for ceasefires or temporary peace deals to showcase their peacemaking prowess” following campaign promises.
The Middle East and North Africa (Mena) Think Tank Forum, co-hosted by the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (ME Council) and the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut, concluded successfully in Doha on September 24.