Over the past three years, Saudi Arabia’s ambition to create world-leading experiences in sports such as golf and boxing has drawn global attention,…

Warring parties in the Middle East have been using the region’s recent violent convulsions to test and upgrade weapons, improve the skills of their…

Last week’s Turkish-brokered agreement to end tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia has raised questions about Egypt’s future involvement in the Horn…

The United Nations’ envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, has arrived in the country for first time since the tumultuous 11-day overthrow of former…

Israel's decimation of Syria's military assets has not made headlines in Syrian media nor in countries with vested stakes in the country. Instead,…

What exactly is Bashar al-Assad’s number when it comes to the long list of Syrian presidents? The answer, quite surprisingly, is debatable, given…

Move over Grover Cleveland. Before Donald Trump’s victory on 5 November, Cleveland had a monopoly on one aspect of American electoral history: he was…

A statesman dies two deaths: His own and that of the world he tried to build. Iranian General Qasem Soleimani went through the first in 2020 when an…

What once seemed like an impossible dream is now a reality: al-Assad’s regime has fallen. For Syrians, this historic moment evokes both profound hope…