The role and status of women in Yemen have long been complex, but until the Houthis took control of much of the country in 2014, women took ‘the…

To say that Nabih Berri is part of Lebanon’s political furniture would be an understatement. He has served as the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament…

As global attention zeroes in on Israel's expanding conflicts across the Middle East, a storm is brewing in northwest Syria. After a three-month lull…

Iran looms large as an important policy question in the Middle East these days. But it barely received mention on the campaign trail in the United…

The leaders of both sides of the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus attended an informal dinner on 15 October hosted by Antonio Guterres, the…

Since 9/11 and America's subsequent war on terror from 2001 onwards, war and conflict have been a mainstay in the Middle East. In 2003, the US…

As the news broke out that Hamas’s chief, Yahya Sinwar, was killed, Israeli commentators and anchors kept repeating the same expression in Hebrew…

Allegations by the commander of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that Egypt staged air strikes against his troops in the Blue Nile…

The poet T.S. Eliot famously described April as the “cruellest month”, but the writer Ray Bradbury may be nearer the truth. He named his collection…

On this day exactly 99 years ago, the residents of Damascus awoke to the sound of explosions ripping through their sleeping city. Colonial France,…