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
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
Why the EU needs to develop a new policy towards Egypt
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
How effective is the international legal framework on drone strikes? Letta Tayler and Mustafa Qadri offer their views on the situation in Yemen and…
What will be the big foreign policy trends in 2014? Mark Leonard talks to Julien Barnes-Dacey and Vessela Tcherneva about what will shape the…
Javier Martín, periodista expecializado en Oriente Medio, conversa con Hélène Michou sobre lo ocurrido en los últimos dos años en Egipto. Tras los que…
Which areas need to be addressed if the Palestinian leadership wants to overcome the present challenges it faces?
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
How to assess whether a post-revolutionary country is actually heading somewhere positive? Tunisia struggles onward, Libya pursues its own unique post-revolutionary path but Egypt’s democratic regression is truly worrying