The dramatic resignation of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer means that Andy Burnham, the charismatic former Mayor of Manchester, is now…

When the Italian writer Umberto Eco delivered a lecture at the University of Bologna in 2008, he was not offering a passing moral reflection on war…

After long years of military confrontation and tension, punctuated by periods of fragile stability, the signing of the framework agreement between…

From the moment the referee blew the opening whistle of the FIFA World Cup 2026, the players were not the only ones competing. During the 39-day…

The G7 summit held in the French town of Évian-les-Bains was far more than another routine gathering of the leaders of the West’s major economies. It…

Donald Trump’s Middle East advisor, Massad Boulos, has a tough job when it comes to Libya, a country torn between west and east since the fall of…

When Hezbollah began attacking Israel on 2 March shortly after Israeli and American bombers killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Israel hit…

The “New Syria" does not want to return to Lebanon through the gates of tutelage or war, nor does Lebanon wish to summon the memory of 1976, when the…

In recent days, the Syrian government has said that it has no intention of intervening militarily in its smaller neighbour, Lebanon, after a comment…

US President Donald Trump has now said out loud what had previously sounded like a trial balloon: he thinks Syria should take on Hezbollah in Lebanon…