Middle East and North Africa

Syria’s uprising within an uprising

  • Rania Abouzeid
  • Commentary

The Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS), a transnational ultraconservative Islamist group has been a thorn in the Syrian revolution since its inception in April 2013. The group is at the centre of a new round of infighting in rebel-held Syria.

A new constitution will not solve Egypt’s problems

  • Anthony Dworkin
  • Commentary

Next week Egyptians will vote in a referendum on a new constitution. Few people doubt that the constitution will be approved, but there is more at stake in the vote than merely adopting a new legal framework for the country.

Israel-Palestine Two State Stress Test

  • Fatima Ayub, Daniel Levy, Hugh Lovatt, Dimi Reider, Mattia Toaldo
  • Special

ECFR’s innovative project Two State Stress Test provides a health-check on whether developments across seven different areas are serving to strain or sustain a possible two-state outcome for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

US drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan

  • Podcast
  • ECFR Reports

How effective is the international legal framework on drone strikes? Letta Tayler and Mustafa Qadri offer their views on the situation in Yemen and…

10 Dec

Primer Egypt Working Group

  • ECFR Madrid

ECFR Madrid celebró en Casa Árabe la primera reunión del Egypt Working Group, un grupo multidisciplinar de expertos, diplomáticos europeos y responsables gubernamentales dirigido a seguir de cerca el complejo proceso de transición en Egipto