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Nabih Berri: The many faces of Lebanon’s longest-serving Speaker Lina Jaradat
Profiles

Nabih Berri: The many faces of Lebanon’s longest-serving Speaker

To say that Nabih Berri is part of Lebanon’s political furniture would be an understatement. He has served as the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament…

Badia Fahs 20 October , 2024
Opinion

Russian strikes in northwest Syria remind everyone who's boss

As global attention zeroes in on Israel's expanding conflicts across the Middle East, a storm is brewing in northwest Syria. After a three-month lull…

Haid Haid 21 October , 2024
The Biden administration's approach to Iran was heavily weighted towards de-escalation as opposed to Trump's focus on deterrence Eduardo Ramon
Politics

How Trump and Harris compare on Iran

Iran looms large as an important policy question in the Middle East these days. But it barely received mention on the campaign trail in the United…

Brian Katulis and Alex Vatanka 17 October , 2024
Opinion

Leaders of a divided Cyprus meet, but resolution still far away

The leaders of both sides of the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus attended an informal dinner on 15 October hosted by Antonio Guterres, the…

Omer Onhon 19 October , 2024
Palestinian children gather at a destroyed vehicle, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, September 30, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Business & Economy

Decades of Gulf aid to war-torn Arab countries tops $363bn

Since 9/11 and America's subsequent war on terror from 2001 onwards, war and conflict have been a mainstay in the Middle East. In 2003, the US…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 19 October , 2024
Sinwar killing leaves many Israelis wondering: what now? Jay Torres
Politics

Sinwar killing leaves many Israelis wondering: what now?

As the news broke out that Hamas’s chief, Yahya Sinwar, was killed, Israeli commentators and anchors kept repeating the same expression in Hebrew…

Michael Horowitz 19 October , 2024
This file photo from October 10, 1973, shows a building destroyed by an Israeli bombing in Damascus during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. AFP
Documents & Memoirs

Damascus under bombs: From Ottomans to French to Israelis

On this day exactly 99 years ago, the residents of Damascus awoke to the sound of explosions ripping through their sleeping city. Colonial France,…

Sami Moubayed 18 October , 2024
Opinion

Is US warning to Israel genuine or a campaign push for Harris?

The ultimatum issued by the Biden administration to Israel, warning that military supplies will be cut if the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza is not…

Con Coughlin 17 October , 2024
PIF: The main driver of Saudi Arabia's economic transformation Diana Estefanía Rubio
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PIF: The main driver of Saudi Arabia's economic transformation

The PIF has been the primary driver for meeting the needs of Vision 2030, attracting foreign investments, and enhancing local content by increasing…

Al Majalla - London 17 October , 2024
The notion that the sophistication of Israel’s air defences makes it immune to penetration is now under serious review in the wake of recent attacks by Iran, Hezbollah and other "resistance axis" allies. Axel Rangel García
Politics

Cracks emerge in Israel's much-touted missile defences

The aura of invincibility enjoyed for years by Israel’s air defences suddenly finds itself under intense scrutiny following the recent successes…

Con Coughlin 17 October , 2024
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Lina Jaradat
Politics

Attacks on Iran make a nuclear bomb more likely

20 June 2025

Iran's nuclear programme is damaged, but its determination is heightened

Eric Brewer
Michelle Thompson.
Business & Economy

What would happen if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz?

18 June 2025

The strait carries up to 20% of the world's oil exports at around 20 million barrels of oil each day. Any closure could cost the global economy greatly, even if only for a short time.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi
A demonstrator holds a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while gathering with others during a rally in solidarity with the government against Israel's attacks on Iran on June 14, 2025. ATTA KENARE / AFP
Politics

Iran is further from regime change than Israel thinks

17 June 2025

Israel sees an opportunity to eliminate a strategic regional rival, but the future course of events primarily hinges on what Trump decides to do next

Houssam Itani
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses Iranians on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (portrait), in Tehran on June 4, 2025. KHAMENEI.IR / AFP
Profiles

Ali Khamenei: the guardian of Iran's strategic patience doctrine

21 June 2025

For decades, Iran's supreme leader—first Khomeini, then Khamenei—pursued a strategy of backing regional militias to fight Israel, but with the 'resistance axis' in tatters, Iran is left to fight alone

Arash Azizi
Eduardo Ramon
Politics

How Israel pulled off its unprecedented strike on Iran

18 June 2025

Years of painstaking intelligence work went into the operation that activated vast networks of operatives and involved multiple layers of subterfuge

Michael Horowitz

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