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Libyans gather at the Martyrs’ Square in Tripoli on February 17, 2023, as they commemorate the 12th anniversary of the uprising that toppled longtime strongman Muammar Gaddafi.

Libya’s outlook remains bleak

A handout picture from Syria where Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is meeting Russia’s Special Envoy for Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, and the accompanying delegation in the capital Damascus in January 2023

Signals of a slow return to peace in Syria

Fans hold up a shirt with the name of Mahsa Amini and a flag advocating women’s rights during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group B match between Wales and the Islamic Republic of Iran in Doha, Qatar

Iran at a political crossroads

Demonstrators at Tahrir Square in Baghdad in a protest against the new government

Baghdad gets a government, but violence haunts Iraq

The Turkish President in the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara

Turkish foreign policy, the East-West divide

A billboard with Tunisian president Kais Saied’s image in Kairouan, Tunisia.

Strangling Tunisia’s democracy

‘West Asia reflects the same multipolarity that is emerging at the global level’

The message for Biden — West Asia has moved on

A weekly cabinet meeting

The floundering of Israel’s uneasy coalition

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, hugs Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman before a meeting in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, on April 28, 2022.

Turkey’s foreign policy reset

File photo of delegates before a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, Austria.

The JCPOA continues to be elusive

Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah speaks after submitting his candidacy papers for the presidential election, in Tripoli, Libya.

The Libyan imbroglio gets more complicated

Sanaa: People inspect the wreckage of a building after it was damaged in Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. The coalition fighting in Yemen announced it had started a bombing campaign targeting Houthi sites a day after a fatal attack on an oil facility in the capital of the United Arab Emirates claimed by Yemen‚Äôs Houthi rebels. It said it also struck a drone operating base in Nabi Shuaib Mountain near Sanaa. AP/PTI(AP01_18_2022_000150A)

Escalation of the ‘forgotten war’ in Yemen

Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Enrique Mora and Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani and delegations wait for the start of a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna on December 17, 2021. Photo: EEAS via REUTERS

Iran nuclear talks reverberate in the Gulf

People protesting against of the military coup in Sudan march during a demonstration in the 'Street 40' of the capital's twin city of Umdurman on November 13, 2021. - Sudanese security forces shot at protesters on November 13 in a crackdown on anti-coup demonstrations, medics said, after the military tightened its grip by forming a new ruling council. (Photo by AFP)

Coups upend West Asia’s nascent democracies