Africa & the Middle East

A look at the comments from CNN’s Marc Lamont Hill that some critics are calling anti-Israel. CNN announced Thursday that it had fired commentator Marc Lamont Hill after he gave…

In this Ground Truth Briefing, two veteran negotiators for the Israelis and the Palestinians, Gilead Sher and Saeb Erekat, discuss the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, the confrontation…

The Egyptian government’s crushing of the 2011 popular uprising, its downplaying of those events, and, more importantly, its willful disregard for the revolution’s significance will have dire consequences not only…

President Barack Obama threatened Tuesday to walk away from nuclear negotiations if Iran doesn’t adhere to the principles it agreed to in April. Negotiators have formally extended talks to July…

Nobody in America wanted to spend generations fighting terrorists, but that’s what it’s going to take. In 2013, there were 16 Americans killed in terrorist attacks around the world, according…

One in five African states produce hydrocarbons, and most of these are heavily dependent on oil and gas revenues to finance their governments and generate foreign exchange. Further, an emerging group…