Borzou Daragahi

The murder of the dissident Saudi has provided the Turkish president with ammunition against his country's rival, Saudi Arabia. 

Turkish President Erdoğan has called for a new presidential election more than a year before its scheduled date. Critics say the sudden move will give opponents less time to organize. 

Protests in Iran continued into Wednesday, and at least 21 people have died amid the demonstrations.

The Trump Administration has stepped up U.S. support for Syrian forces that are trying to drive out ISIS from the city of Raqqa, but a solution to the conflict still seems out of reach.

The situation in the Gulf region appears to be evolving rapidly, with a sense of instability growing following reports of deadly assaults today in the Iranian capital.

As Britons investigate the latest terror attack in London, President Trump takes to Twitter to make points about his travel ban. Also, several countries have suspended diplomatic ties with Qatar.

Newly appointed CIA director Mike Pompeo makes his first visit to Turkey today, in what appears to be a warming relationship with Turkey.

Monday's assassination of a Russian ambassador comes before defense ministers from Iran, Russia, and Turkey meet today in Moscow to discuss Syria and a solution for Aleppo.

For better or worse, the U.S. has an outsized influence in the Middle East. Here's how the region is thinking about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. 

The ISIS video depicting Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh being burned alive pierced through the violence fatigue of the Arab world, says FT correspondent Borzou Daragahi.

Borzou Daragahi, Middle East and North Africa correspondent for the Financial Times, and Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times Tehran Bureau chief, discuss the fallout from the devaluation of Iran's currency.

It’s been two days since a bomb ripped through a high-level meeting that killed Bashar Al-Assad’s defense minister and brother-in-law. And the capital of Damascus is seeing its worst ...

This morning we are heartbroken to report that Anthony Shadid of our partner The New York Times is no longer one of the survivors. The veteran Middle East correspondent for The Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe and long time voice on this program has died. A fatal asthma attack while he was reporting in chaotic Syria, working undercover. His body carried across the Syrian border and home by a colleague yesterday.

Over the past ten months, Syrian Security Forces have killed more than 5,000 protestors across the country. But this weekend, two key voices announced their calls to action: the Arab League will seek U.N. Security Council approval to peacefully end the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, and Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer introduced a bill that would block financial aid and create trade sanctions against Syrian leaders involved in the crackdown.

Los Angeles Times Beirut Bureau Chief Borzou Daragahi reports on the latest developments in Syria, including the recall of the ambassadors of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Berlin attending NATO meetings, where members of the alliance are debating whether to step up their attacks on Libyan forces. Meanwhile, Libyan rebels are warning of an immanent blood bath in the city of Misurata if NATO does not intensify their air attacks. Thursday, Col. Moammar Gaddhafi rode around around Tripoli in a convertible, defiantly waving his fists at the allied forces. What is the way forward for NATO and is its latest combat mission a reflection of how little it can do to with such a divided force?

The U.N. Security Council voted Thursday to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya, in a  10 to zero vote. Mideast bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, Borzhou Daragahi, says that Col. Gadhafi and his loyalists were surprised by the news.

Steven Cook, senior fellow for the Middle Eastern Studies Council on Foreign Relations, and Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times Beirut bureau chief, discuss what's happening on the ground in the Tunisian capital and what it means for the rest of the Middle East and North Africa.

Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, to protest the rule of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, who announced that he would not seek re-election in 2014. The country has been rattled for weeks by protests over high unemployment, inflation and corruption. The protests have left 23 dead.

The Lebanese government has collapsed following the resignation of eleven ministers from Hezbollah and its allies. Their resignation from the government came in the midst of a dispute over a U.N. tribunal, which has found ties between the 2005 assassination of former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, and Hezbollah.