From Moscow to Beijing, and from Washington to New Delhi, the world seems to be entering a new phase, its contours shaped by four men: Donald Trump,…

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The Ministry of Defence is one of Syria’s most complex institutions. In many ways, it reflects the country’s myriad differences, making it difficult…

Last month, the Algerian novelist Said Khatibi won the 19th International Prize for Arabic Fiction for Swimming Against the Tide. Chronicling half a…

As negotiations continue between the Trump administration and Tehran to end the Iran conflict, Pakistan’s mediation role has proved crucial in…

Gulf states are intensifying security campaigns to dismantle networks linked to Iran and Hezbollah, accused of espionage, sabotage, money laundering…

With no clear end in sight to hostilities involving the United States, Israel, the Gulf states, Iran, and its regional proxies, the Middle East is…

Hezbollah can lose fighters, commanders, territory and access and still survive if its money survives. That is the uncomfortable lesson Europe should…

Iran’s attempts to destabilise Syria have continued since its strategic project collapsed with the fall of the Assad regime on 8 December 2024. Since…

A day of reckoning looms, and every political observer in Britain knows it, a day of what President Obama would call ‘a shellacking’. May's local…