Middle East

World

U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS, Because Obviously

ISIS takes food, medical equipment meant for displaced Syrians

Reason Staff | 10.20.2014 10:00 AM

Politics

As ISIS Threats to U.S. Get Louder, Where Are Arab Allies?

Zenon Evans | 9.22.2014 12:05 PM

Politics

3 Reasons to NOT Fight ISIS

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 9.20.2014 7:00 PM

Politics

The Middle East Needs Free Markets, Not Troops

Joshua Swain | 9.20.2014 3:00 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: 'Boots on the Ground' and Other Linguistic Evasions, the ISIS Non-Strategy, the War on Ebola, Smoking in New York, Obamacare Bummers, Benghazi Update, and Aftershow

Matt Welch | 9.16.2014 8:23 PM

Politics

Threat Inflation and Our Next Dumb War: ISIS Edition

Nick Gillespie | 9.11.2014 8:16 AM

Politics

Why Do Reporters Think 'Isolationist' Is a Neutral Term for People Less Inclined to Wage War Than Dick Cheney?

Jacob Sullum | 9.10.2014 3:18 PM

Policy

Terrorists Want Us to Overreact. Let's Not Give In, Mr. President.

Maybe it's time for America to stop taking the bait.

John Stossel | 9.10.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

Ending Evil vs. Defending the Country

Do the Islamic State's crimes justify Obama's new war?

Jacob Sullum | 9.10.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

What Happened on Friday Afternoon That Banished Rand Paul's Doubts About War Against ISIS? [UPDATED]

Jacob Sullum | 9.4.2014 11:35 AM

World

An Unhappy Summer for Liberty

Locally and nationally, we live under governments that prefer to rule rather than to serve.

Andrew Napolitano | 9.4.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Does Rand Paul Think the Beheading of American Journalists Justifies War Against ISIS?

Jacob Sullum | 9.2.2014 4:44 PM

Politics

Watch: Anthony L. Fisher Discussing End of Gaza Ceasefire on Huffpost Live

Anthony Fisher | 8.19.2014 3:57 PM

Civil Liberties

The Andrew Jackson of the Middle East

The ugly side of Moshe Feiglin

Jesse Walker | 8.11.2014 8:25 AM

Politics

Hamas Ends Ceasefire. Now What?

Anthony Fisher | 8.8.2014 3:07 PM

World

Fighting Resumes In Gaza

Surprising no one...

Reason Staff | 8.8.2014 9:00 AM

Politics

Israel Offers to Extend Three-Day Gaza Truce

Reason Staff | 8.7.2014 9:50 AM

Policy

Seriously, What Is John Kerry Doing?

We have either an incompetent secretary of state or a momentous shift in Middle East policy.

David Harsanyi | 8.1.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

Anthony Fisher Talking Israel-Gaza on HuffPost Live Today at 1030am ET

Anthony Fisher | 8.1.2014 10:11 AM

Politics

The Battered Israeli Anti-War Movement

Anthony Fisher | 7.31.2014 5:15 PM

Culture

David Frum, Gaza Truther

A pundit's paranoia.

Jesse Walker | 7.31.2014 8:05 AM

World

Israeli Strike Hits Gaza Hospital

Reason Staff | 7.28.2014 11:25 AM

World

Americans Would Like to Stay Out of Conflict-Torn Countries, Thanks

Reason Staff | 7.22.2014 9:15 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: MH-17, Israel-Hamas, Immigration Kids, Ending the Fed, Cigarette Chokeholds, Net Roots Comedy, Nanny-State Shopping Carts, John Bolton, Aftershow and More!

Matt Welch | 7.21.2014 8:21 PM

World

Palestinian Body Count Tops 100 as Israel Responds to Rockets With Escalating Airstrikes and People on Both Sides Plead for Peace

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.11.2014 11:27 AM

World

Jordan's Grassroots, Black-Market, DIY City

A dispatch from the Zaatari refugee camp

Jesse Walker | 7.10.2014 8:10 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: UPDATED: Glenn Greenwald on his NSA Scoop, Bloodshed in the Middle East, Pot Shortage in Washington, China vs. the U.S., Crosswalk Entrapment, Serial-Killer Real Estate and Spanking Bans

Matt Welch | 7.9.2014 2:13 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Friends, Enemies, and Chaos in the Middle East

Matt Welch | 6.27.2014 1:01 PM

World

Was the Iraq War a Complete Waste?

It gets increasingly difficult to imagine that the U.S. has gained anything worthwhile from its invasion of Iraq.

David Harsanyi | 6.13.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

Central Intelligence Arabists

How the CIA tilted toward the Arabs in the 1950s and '60s

Michael Young | 3.28.2014 10:00 AM

Marijuana

Three New Zealanders Have Spent 2+ Months in Detention in the UAE, Still Uncharged After Drug Bust

Patrick Kennedy can move there if he wants

Ed Krayewski | 2.27.2014 3:34 PM

Science & Technology

Dubai Looking to Roll Out Drones for Deliveries

For goods like medicines or government documents

Reason Staff | 2.10.2014 3:45 PM

Policy

Report: More Than 3,500 Killed by US Drones

Including more than 450 civilians

Reason Staff | 12.31.2013 3:00 PM

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