President Trump’s surprise decision to lift US sanctions on Syria marks a potentially transformative moment for a country long cut off from the…

On 13 May 2025, President Donald Trump stunned the world in Riyadh when he announced that the US would lift all sanctions on Syria—a nation reeling…

The meeting in Riyadh of presidents Donald Trump and Ahmed al-Sharaa followed the US leader's announcement that sanctions on Syria would end. These…

On this day in 1965, Israeli spy Eli Cohen was executed by hanging in Marjeh Square in the heart of downtown Damascus. His execution verdict was…

In 2011, Libyans rose up like others in the region to topple the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who came to power in a coup 42 years earlier, in…

Tunisian writer and academic Amira Ghenim’s novel Nazelet Dar Al-Akaber (A Calamity at the House of the Nobles) continues to earn international…

The headlines of multiple economic and business deals from the three stops on US President Donald Trump’s trip to the Middle East in the opening…

The international system, which has been in flux since the end of the Cold War, appears to be heading in one of two directions: toward a multipolar…

This has been a fascinating week in many respects, with high hopes for a Russia-Ukraine deal to end the war, a businesslike and successful official…