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What Trump Knew About the Attack Against Iran

Missy Ryan, Jonathan Lemire, and Isaac Stanley-Becker

June 13, 2025

Donald Trump speaking into a microphone

Trump Is Making Netanyahu Nervous

May 24, 2025

A composite image of two photos edited together to make it appear as if Benjamin Netanyahu is whispering in Donald Trump’s ear

What Trump Got Right in the Middle East

May 21, 2025

Trump poses with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and business leaders in Riyadh on May 13.

Washington Week With The Atlantic

Trump’s Transactional Foreign Policy

May 17, 2025

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic

The Atlantic Daily

There’s No Such Thing as a Free Plane

David A. Graham

May 12, 2025

Donald Trump boards Air Force One

Trump Travels to the Middle East

May 10, 2025

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic

Trump Heads Back to Where He Started

Jonathan Lemire

May 9, 2025

President Donald Trump is greeted by Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, king of Saudi Arabia, in Riyad on May 20, 2017.

Trump’s Inevitable Betrayal of His Supporters

May 8, 2025

Trump is shown from behind at a campaign rally, raising his fist.

The Atlantic Daily

Inside the Fight Over Trump’s Foreign Policy

April 23, 2025

Donald Trump sits at a table next to Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio

Erdoğan Sets His Sights on Israel

Reuel Marc Gerecht

April 19, 2025

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Iran’s Negotiating Position Gets Worse and Worse

April 15, 2025

Witkoff and Aragchi

The Atlantic Daily

A Conversation With Jeffrey Goldberg About His Extraordinary Scoop

David A. Graham

March 24, 2025

A black and white photo of JD Vance and Pete Hegseth with a group-chat screenshot

Water Is Not Political

March 13, 2025

Two photos sit side by side. One shows a street in Gaza in complete destruction as a man walks over rubble. The picture on the right shows the coast and what looks like many people on the shore in makeshift structures.

What Trump Is Really After in the Middle East

February 27, 2025

A Palestinian village neighbors an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

The Problem With Optimism in a Crisis

Richard A. Friedman

February 27, 2025

Collage of a woman floating on an inner tube surrounded by loopy scribbles

Trump Is Remaking the World in His Image

February 14, 2025

A color photo-illustration of Donald Trump in a red MAGA cap swinging a golf club at a soccer-ball-size Earth

The Challenges the U.S. Would Face in Gaza

February 7, 2025

Nobody Wants Gaz-a-Lago

February 5, 2025

Close-up picture of Trump

Trump’s Wild Plan for Gaza

Jonathan Lemire

February 4, 2025

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu

Biden’s Middle East Legacy

January 26, 2025

The Atlantic Daily

Will Trump Keep the Cease-Fire on Track?

January 21, 2025

Donald Trump holds an executive order

Brace for Foreign-Policy Chaos

Jonathan Lemire

January 16, 2025

Assad’s Opponents Are Building a New Order

December 9, 2024

A tattered and torn billboard of the Syrian flag with Bashar al-Assad’s face on it lit up atop a building at night

Khamenei Loses Everything

December 8, 2024

The Iranian embassy in Damascus

The Folly of Ignoring Syria This Long

December 6, 2024

Exploded buildings in Syria

How to End the War in Gaza

Stuart E. Eizenstat and Dennis Ross

December 2, 2024

Pigeons fly away after an Israeli rocket hits a building in Beirut

A Late Win for Biden in the Middle East

November 28, 2024

A mother and her son standing atop the rubble of a destroyed house in Tyre, Lebanon

My Hope for Palestine

Samer Sinijlawi

December 2024 Issue

Israeli and Palestinian flags on flagpoles that bend and cross over each other to form the shape of a house with a roof

Xi May Lose His Gamble

Michael Schuman

November 3, 2024

The Greatest Opportunity That Wasn’t

November 2, 2024

Silhouettes of armed soldiers in contralux

Muslim American Support for Trump Is an Act of Self-Sabotage

October 30, 2024

A black-and-white photo of a woman wearing an "Arab Americans for Trump" shirt

What Would a Second Trump Administration Mean for the Middle East?

October 21, 2024

Trump clasps Netanyahu's hand and leans close to speak in his ear.

Why the Oil Market Is Not Shocked

James Surowiecki

October 20, 2024

An illustration of a gas can buoyed up by a balloon

The Final Weeks

October 19, 2024

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic

Two People Will Decide What Comes of Sinwar’s Death

October 18, 2024

A scene from a demonstration Tel Aviv, Israel, for the release of hostages

A Naked Desperation to Be Seen

October 7, 2024

A collage of a man in a yarmulke and a woman crying, a woman in a hijab crying, bombs and a wall of posters