One of Iceland’s best-known writers, Andri Snær Magnason, is one of the few who can claim to have won the country’s main literary prize in all three…

One of the very first actions taken by the incoming Labour government was the scrapping of the previous administration’s Rwanda policy. The…

The bunker-busting bombs used by Israel to assassinate the senior leadership of Hezbollah may also have destroyed a large part of its dollar stash…

When Egypt sent a second consecutive shipment of arms to Somalia last month, it likely did so with water and Ethiopia in mind, although officially,…

In the restive South Caucasus, where grievances do well to simmer, a proposed new road can be much more than just another transport route. Such is…

Iran arguably faces the greatest crisis since its 1979 Islamic revolution following its decision to launch its massive ballistic missile attack…

Around 2,500 years ago, Chinese military leader and strategist Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War. It was so influential that even today, most generals…

Lebanon’s army was swift to set up a security cordon around the US Embassy near Beirut after Israeli air strikes targeting the senior leadership of…

In the year since Hamas’s 7 October attack, Israel has gone from looking more vulnerable than it has for half a century—when it almost lost the 1973…