Shortly after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi bid farewell to Chinese President Xi Jinping at Cairo Airport on 2 September, he called Saudi…

In most Levantine cities, a version of ‘high society’ occupies the upper end of the socioeconomic spectrum: wealthy, westernised, English-speaking…

Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel laureate and one of the architects of artificial intelligence, is now warning the world about the very technology he helped…

It has been quite a week in far-right European politics. Reform UK, a party that only recently (according to the polls) seemed set for government,…

Over the last few days, multiple countries have singled out the government of Israel for reproach over its failure to control the actions of settlers…

In Mali, the militant Islamist organisation Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is no longer waging a peripheral insurgency but has become…

Five years after the Taliban took over Afghanistan following the American withdrawal, the government in Kabul has extended an offer to the United…

The Houthis have taken control of Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast, according to reports. The Yemeni rebel group took over the remaining towns on the…

A quarter of a century after the attacks against America on 11 September 2001, one cannot definitively say that al-Qaeda has been defeated. Instead,…

According to American journalist Steve Coll in his 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning book Ghost Wars (about the CIA, Afghanistan, and al-Qaeda from the…