FOLLOWING THE SIGNING of a mutual defense pact in Riyadh on Sept. 17 between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan, Washington’s Arab Gulf...

ON OCT. 13, 2025, as many as 1,968 Palestinian detainees tasted freedom through a prisoner exchange with the Israeli occupation. Among them were 1,718 detainees who had been imprisoned during...

Panelists at the Sept. 21 Voices From the Holy Land Online Film Salon described the threat posed by the weaponization of “Holocaust memory” to create repressive laws in the United States based on the...

What distinguished Mamdani was not only the content of his program, but the candor with which he stated its premise: Government should serve those who labor, not those who lobby. He proclaimed that...

The 1990s intensified these fears. Conflicts in Sudan, Algeria, Afghanistan and Chechnya were routinely framed in U.S. media as “Islamic law movements,” flattening complex histories of colonialism,...

POPE LEO XIV flew from Türkiye to Lebanon on Nov. 30 and surprised the press corps flying with him by making some comments to them.

CATHERINE CONNOLLY won the October 24 elections in a landslide, with 63 percent of the vote.

FOR CENTURIES, Christian pilgrims have journeyed to the Holy Land to walk in the footsteps of Jesus—celebrating his birth in Bethlehem and his resurrection in Jerusalem.

CHRISTIANS, ESPECIALLY EVANGELICALS, BEWARE! Israel, the world leader in weaponizing cell phones against their users, is eyeing your phones.

THE MOROCCAN MONARCHY is widely regarded as one of the most enduring and influential institutions in North Africa. On paper, it functions as a constitutional monarchy, with formal powers grounded in...

For more than 40 years, the Washington Report has published insightful analysis of the political, economic and historical realities of the U.S.-Middle East relationship. Our magazine is packed with...

BUSBOYS AND POETS founder Andy Shallal welcomed attendees to the book launch for We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth at his 14th & V location in Washington, DC on Sept. 4.

REGIONAL AND global outrage finally reached a tipping point. Protests grew to a feverish pitch as the world witnessed haunting images of starving children and tiny shrouds; badly needed aid rotting

For more than 40 years, the Washington Report has published insightful analysis of the political, economic and historical realities of the U.S.-Middle East relationship. Our magazine is packed with...

FOUR YEARS AFTER the Taliban’s return to government following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, the country faces many challenges, including a struggling economy and human rights...

THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA posted a striking Instagram message on Sept. 4, 2025. The graphic showed six interlocked arms of different colors, one tattooed with an Auschwitz number, with the caption:

IN ISRAEL’S EYES, journalism in Gaza is not a legitimate practice; it is a form of terrorism that must be eliminated.

U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S latest expression of fealty to Israel is the 20-point plan on Gaza announced on Sept. 29.

THE HISTORY OF ZIONISM is fundamentally one of deception. This assertion is critically relevant today, as it contextualizes the so-called “Trump Gaza proposal,” which appears to be little more than a...