Since his appointment in October 2024 as the United Nations’ new Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs, former British diplomat Tom Fletcher has been…

On 26 July, Sudan’s ‘Ta’asis’ alliance, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), announced the formation of a…

“Isn’t there, in every passing second of life, someone laughing? Then on this earth, laughter is unceasing.” So wrote Ziad Rahbani, son of the iconic…

Long a crossroads for trade and migration, southern Syria is a hub for the smuggling of illicit goods—from weapons and fuel to food and antiquities…

European countries offer immigrants—including Arabs—a rare opportunity to engage in democratic processes and exert influence on political decision…

The conference held at the United Nations headquarters in New York from 28-29 July 2025 was concerned with the establishment of a Palestinian state,…

Since the Eastern Mediterranean began its most recent period of upheaval, two dormant, ingrained, yet contradictory beliefs deeply embedded within…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war on Gaza stands as a grim testament to the calculated cruelty of his government, with starvation not…

In his inaugural speech in January, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said the Lebanese state should regain its monopoly over the use of force, to…