In Brief: What’s Happening in the Middle East?

A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep into a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** Things are changing in the Middle East. Alliances are shifting, with longtime enemies making peace while global powers like China and Russia play an ever-more prominent role. A conservative government has emerged in Israel, while the long-exiled government of Bashar al-Assad is now being integrated back into the Arab League. All this while conflicts still rage in Syria and Yemen, and the region deals with an ongoing