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December 16, 2025

Unfinished business will drive the Mideast agenda in 2026

MEI experts weigh in on where the Middle East region is headed in the coming year.

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Jan 6, 2020
Algerian protesters take part in an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers on January 3, 2020.

Algeria remains in crisis

Jan 3, 2020
People gather to stage a protest against the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani by a US air strike in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, after Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran on January 3, 2020.

The killing of Qassem Soleimani: Analysis from MEI experts

Jan 3, 2020
Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani (C) attends Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's meeting with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Tehran, Iran on September 18, 2016.

With Soleimani’s death, war is coming