“Don’t be a PANICAN,” said US President Donald Trump on social media after his sweeping global tariffs on 2 April spooked the markets. PANICAN? This…

On 10 March, Damascus struck a stunning deal with the largely Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, who agreed to integrate into Syria’s political and…

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is the key financier of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, a national plan that aims to wean the economy off oil, which…

Ever since US President Donald Trump decided to implement his controversial reciprocal tariffs policy, the White House has found itself trying to…

The Trump administration’s expanded military campaign against Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement has sparked intense debate across the globe…

The disbanding of Ahmad Al-Awda’s Eighth Brigade on 13 marks a major shift in Syria’s security landscape. It got rid of President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s…

To say Yolanda Guardi is familiar the academic rigour is an understatement: she earned degrees from universities in Spain (Anthropology and Arabic…

None of the numbers from Lebanon’s civil war make for easy reading: 130,000 dead, a million displaced, 15 years duration, billions of dollars to…

Offering both carrots and sticks is standard procedure in diplomatic negotiations, but US President Donald Trump takes it to new heights. Whatever…