The next phase of US policy in the Middle East
In January, I argued that the United States was not retreating from the Middle East but was executing a deliberate shift, transferring security responsibilities to regional allies while reorienting...
August 19, 2026
In January, I argued that the United States was not retreating from the Middle East but was executing a deliberate shift, transferring security responsibilities to regional allies while reorienting...
August 19, 2026
Amid widespread legal and political controversy, Israel is moving to construct a specialized wing and facility designed specifically for carrying out execution sentences against Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli...
August 19, 2026
Rached Ghannouchi, the imprisoned leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda party, has been returned to Mornaguia civil prison after spending nearly three weeks in hospital since July 29, according to his...
August 19, 2026
The United Nations said on Tuesday that Israeli authorities ordered about 10 Palestinian families in the occupied West Bank to temporarily leave their homes amid Israeli military activity at...
August 19, 2026
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran had told mediators that it would not accept a temporary ceasefire, stressing that what was needed was a complete and lasting end...
August 19, 2026
Israeli reserve Major General Uzi Dayan, who is close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel was, in his assessment, fighting a “war for its existence”, warning that it...
August 19, 2026
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said 97 per cent of cropland in the Gaza Strip is now damaged or inaccessible, according to an assessment carried out with the...
August 18, 2026
The news that Chris Wormald, the former head of the UK civil service, has been awarded £500,000 in compensation—more than half a million dollars—after being forced out of his...
August 18, 2026
The US Amb. to Israel, Mike Huckabee, reaffirmed his condemnation Tuesday of extremist occupier violence in the occupied West Bank, asserting that the actions meet the American definition of...
August 18, 2026
The Israeli government broke a commitment over the controversial E1 illegal settlement project in occupied East Jerusalem by issuing a tender for 1,234 illegal settlement units without notifying petitioners...