The US federal government has been shut down since 1 October 2025, after Congress failed to pass a funding bill before the end of the fiscal year,…

The breakthrough ceasefire reached in Egypt this week follows two years of unprecedented bloodshed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—marked by…

A huge two-runway airbase in the Afghan mountains that was first built with Soviet help and later extended by the Americans, Bagram has once again…

Have you heard that the International Monetary Fund has cancelled all loans to Egypt and that the Egyptian government now plans to sell the Suez…

In the Middle East, every action carries great weight and symbolism. And this was very much on display when Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani…

Apart from a single line on Wikipedia, there is no information available in Arabic about the Norwegian poet Gunvor Höfmo (1921-1995), despite her…

Egypt saw the October 7 2023, attack against Israel as a symptom of occupation, rather than one of unprovoked terror. Notably, Cairo never explicitly…

Donald Trump has repeatedly announced that he is retiring from the Middle East. He said that the wars in this region are endless and that Washington…

US President Donald Trump departs for the Middle East on Sunday, 12 October, his second trip to the region in five months—and what a difference five…