Middle East

Politics

What Are You Laughing At?

Charles Oliver | 12.31.2013 6:00 AM

Politics

Brickbat: What Are You Laughing At?

Charles Oliver | 12.31.2013 6:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Committee to Protect Journalists: Middle East the Most Dangerous Region in the World For Journalists

Syria the most dangerous country in the region

Reason Staff | 12.30.2013 1:20 PM

Civil Liberties

American Man Gets Year in Prison in Dubai over Parody Video

Spoof made fun of country's youth culture

Reason Staff | 12.23.2013 3:20 PM

Science & Technology

Snow Hits Mideast Countries

Cairo hasn't recorded snowfall for 100 years

Reason Staff | 12.13.2013 1:40 PM

Culture

Heaviest December Snow Storm in 60 Years Sweeps Through Middle East

Rare

Reason Staff | 12.12.2013 7:10 PM

Politics

Journalist Seymour Hersh Thinks The Evidence for Assad Regime Gas Attacks Thin

Brian Doherty | 12.9.2013 3:33 PM

Policy

Kuwaiti Man Sentenced To Five Years in Jail For Tweet on Theology

Convicted of insulting the prophet Muhammad

Reason Staff | 11.20.2013 11:20 AM

Policy

Amnesty Criticizes Qatar Over Working Conditions For Migrants

Report released last Sunday

Reason Staff | 11.18.2013 12:50 PM

Policy

Israel Approves Plans For East Jerusalem Settlements

Announcement made after freeing 26 Palestinian prisoners

Reason Staff | 10.30.2013 7:30 PM

Policy

Israel's Iron Dome System Intercepts Rocket Fired From Gaza

Another rocket landed in the sea

Reason Staff | 10.28.2013 9:50 AM

Policy

The Point of Negotiating with Iran

The case for avoiding a new war in the Middle East

Steve Chapman | 10.21.2013 8:00 AM

Civil Liberties

A Teaching Moment

Charles Oliver | 10.11.2013 6:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Brickbat: A Teaching Moment

Charles Oliver | 10.11.2013 6:00 AM

Policy

Arab Governments Reportedly Not Happy About Kerry's Recent Comments on Syria

Secretary of state complimented Syria for its cooperation for beginning process of destroying its chemical weapons

Reason Staff | 10.10.2013 2:40 PM

World

International Trade Union Confederation: Qatar World Cup Construction Will Kill 4,000 Migrant Workers

Urging reforms

Reason Staff | 9.26.2013 3:20 PM

Politics

Obama Tells UN It's Time To Press For Middle East Peace

Wants a resolution addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Reason Staff | 9.24.2013 11:00 AM

Politics

Here's How the U.S. Can Help Rid the World of Chemical Weapons

If the Obama Administration really cared, there are a few easy steps to making not just Syria, but the whole world, a safer place

Sheldon Richman | 9.15.2013 8:00 AM

Politics

Does Being Anti-Intervention in Syria = "Isolationist"? Only to Hyper-Interventionists and Diehard Obama Supporters.

Nick Gillespie | 9.9.2013 8:49 AM

Politics

The U.S. Must Not Be The World's Policeman

Decades of interventionist foreign policy have eroded our freedom without making the world a safer place.

Sheldon Richman | 9.8.2013 8:00 AM

Politics

Watch: 3 Reasons Not to Go to War with Syria

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 9.7.2013 2:30 PM

Politics

Has There Been a Rapture of Anti-War Celebrities? If Not, Where The Hell Are They?

Nick Gillespie | 9.7.2013 10:59 AM

Politics

Rand Paul: Why I'm Voting "No" on Syria

Nick Gillespie | 9.5.2013 7:37 AM

Politics

How Would the Government Pay for Intervention in Syria? And How Much is it Low-Balling Cost Estimates?

Nick Gillespie | 9.4.2013 1:45 PM

Politics

Against "Symbolic Killing" in Syria - and Everywhere Else.

Nick Gillespie | 9.4.2013 9:02 AM

Politics

Why Do Liberals, Progs, MSNBCers Want War with Syria? Because They Like War.

Nick Gillespie | 9.3.2013 12:18 PM

Politics

3 Things a Military Intervention in Syria Won't Do

Peter Suderman | 9.3.2013 10:53 AM

Politics

The Case Against Intervening in Syria: Nick Gillespie on C-SPAN

Nick Gillespie | 9.2.2013 10:25 AM

Politics

John Kerry Issues a Brief for War in Syria

Peter Suderman | 8.30.2013 2:13 PM

Politics

How Long Would Limited Strikes In Syria Stay Limited?

Peter Suderman | 8.29.2013 3:59 PM

Politics

The Off-Key Stylings of Obama's Syria War Chorus

Nick Gillespie | 8.29.2013 1:16 PM

Policy

8 Reasons Not to Go to War in Syria

Peter Suderman | 8.27.2013 3:56 PM

Politics

Is Bombing Syria Necessary to Save "the Future of Civilization"? Or, It's Always 1938 Somewhere.

Nick Gillespie | 8.27.2013 1:42 PM

Politics

Why Should Chemical Weapons Be a Red Line in Syria - or Anywhere Else?

Nick Gillespie | 8.26.2013 6:13 PM

Culture

45 Years, 45 Days: In Praise of Vulgarity

Charles Paul Freund | 8.26.2013 11:30 AM

Policy

The Independent: Britain Runs Secret Monitoring Station in the Middle East

Intercepts data that is shared with American intelligence services

Reason Staff | 8.23.2013 7:32 AM

Culture

FIFA Considering Shifting 2022 World Cup in Qatar to Winter Schedule

World Cup may also be moved out of Qatar instead

Reason Staff | 8.14.2013 1:00 PM

War on Drugs

Morocco Considers Legalizing Marijuana Cultivation

Consumption is already legal

Reason Staff | 8.2.2013 10:28 AM

World

Philippines Peacekeepers to Remain in Golan Heights

Troops had been scheduled to withdraw in early August

Reason Staff | 7.31.2013 10:08 AM

World

Kuwaiti Emir Issues Blanket Pardon for Inmates Convicted of Insulting Him

Alright then

Reason Staff | 7.30.2013 7:30 PM

World

Thousands Protest Slaying of Secular Tunisian Politician

Second such assassination this year

Reason Staff | 7.25.2013 1:00 PM

Nanny State

Norwegian Woman Imprisoned After Being Raped Pardoned in Dubai

Going home free

Reason Staff | 7.22.2013 8:28 AM

Politics

John Kerry Makes Sixth Trip to Middle East in Four Months

Spend more time on your boat

Reason Staff | 7.17.2013 12:12 PM

Politics

Matthew Feeney Discusses Neoconservatism and Foreign Policy on RT

Matthew Feeney | 7.17.2013 11:27 AM

Culture

Taking the Pulse of Arab Opinion

A series of polls in six countries reveals a multilayered, ever-evolving Arab identity.

Nada Alwadi | 7.16.2013 4:30 PM

Science & Technology

WHO Sets Up Committee to Tackle MERS Virus

Middle East coronavirus has killed 40

Reason Staff | 7.5.2013 11:23 AM