The conflict in oil-rich Libya has become a proxy war, fueled by rival foreign powers such as Russia and Turkey.

New U.S. sanctions under the Caesar Act could compound the economic turmoil threatening to undo the Assad regime.

Opposition supporters, fed up with a corrupt political system, lack of economic opportunity, and continued violence, are demanding the president’s resignation.

The August explosions in Beirut were the latest in a series of man-made disasters that have led some experts to say Lebanon is becoming a failed state.

Yemen was suffering one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Then the pandemic struck. Now famine is looming, and signals of changing U.S. policy are being closely watched for how that could aff…