News Desk Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Picks a Very Strange Fight with Canada Mohammed bin Salman is daring to confront Western nations, including countries that are important to Saudi security and economic development. August 8, 2018 Dispatch Is Yemen’s Man-Made Famine the Future of War? A trip to Yemen revealed that there is no shortage of food, but the U.S.-backed military intervention has put millions at risk of starvation. July 11, 2018 Dept. of Global Affairs Watching the N.B.A. Finals with Ann Kerr The mother of the Golden State Warriors’ coach reflects on sports, Trump, and her time in the Middle East. A Reporter at Large Donald Trump’s New World Order How the President, Israel, and the Gulf states plan to fight Iran—and leave the Palestinians and the Obama years behind. Culture Desk A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone How strange rocks—and an obscure language—are changing a decades-old academic consensus. May 23, 2018 News Desk Trump Defies His Generals on ISIS and Syria In an extraordinary breach, the President is pushing for a U.S. withdrawal from Syria that his military advisers unanimously warn could result in an Islamic State resurgence. April 5, 2018 A Reporter at Large A Saudi Prince’s Quest to Remake the Middle East In his work with the White House, is Mohammed bin Salman driving out extremism, or merely seizing power for himself? Annals of Gastronomy The Syrian Baker Who’s Bringing the Middle East’s Most Famous Ice Cream to California Maher Nakhal, who imported the kind of ice-cream machine used in the historic parlor Bakdash, in Damascus, said, “I wanted to bring my childhood back to the United States.” February 5, 2018 News Desk One Year In, Trump’s Middle East Policy Is Imploding Three of the President’s four major initiatives in the world’s most volatile region are failing. January 19, 2018 News Desk Kurdish Dreams of Independence Delayed Again Days after President Trump pledged to “roll back” Iran’s gains in the Middle East, Tehran’s spymaster thwarted a Kurdish push for independence from Iraq. October 16, 2017