On this day in 1949, a group of soldiers stormed the home of Syria’s constitutionally elected president, Shukri al-Quwatli, nestled in the tranquil…

Wall Street risk analyst Nassim Taleb is well-known for having predicted the 2007-08 financial crash in his April 2007 book, The Black Swan. Taleb…

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Since the Assad regime crumbled in December 2024, the issue of foreign fighters in Syria has emerged as a major topic of debate confronting the new…

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The disclosure of disparaging remarks made by senior members of the Trump administration about their European allies sheds new light on the deepening…

Egypt is aiming to boost phosphate production to meet global demand and bolster one of its key industries despite the challenges facing the sector…

Heads are still spinning in Washington in the wake of journalist Jeffrey Goldberg’s bombshell report in The Atlantic that he was accidentally…