From New Alamein to Ras El Hekma and Alam Al Roum, Egypt’s northwest coast is transitioning from a strip of resorts that fills up in the summer to a…

Last week, Syria’s Central Authority for Control and Inspection revealed serious irregularities in oil production and contracting in Deir ez-Zor. Its…

Syria continues to move towards becoming a unified and stable state, and towards something more fundamental still: a normal country, the kind neither…

In more than 20 years of closely following US politics, foreign policy, and the issue of Palestinian liberation, there has always been one clear…

The influence of a currency has traditionally been measured by its share of central-bank reserves, or by its use in international trade and the…

The US Navy is running two missions in the Gulf at the same time. One seals Iran's coastline, blocking any vessel from entering or leaving an Iranian…

In the summer of 2025, near a coastal town called Great Yarmouth, a strange boat appeared. In normal circumstances, the boat would probably have gone…

When Tom Barrack, President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Türkiye and envoy to Syria and Iraq, said that the Israelis “continue to occupy the Golan in…

Although the conflict in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz is far from over, analysts are already rushing to declare what lessons should be learned from…