Georgi Markov felt a sharp pain in his thigh. The Bulgarian writer, broadcaster, and dissident was waiting for a London bus in September 1978 when a…

Nearly a year since Hezbollah began attacking Israel in support of Hamas, the medium-intensity conflict has reached an inflexion point. Hezbollah had…

At the United Nations General Assembly in New York, all countries approved a major new political declaration to radically scale up efforts to combat…

The entire credibility of the United Nations Security Council is at stake as it considers how best to respond to the escalating violence between…

In 1956, a University of Maryland student came up with a brilliant idea. Fred Kahn, 23, wrote to his university administration proposing a live…

Hezbollah advises its supporters to follow the Israeli press. Read articles in Haaretz, Yedioth Ahronoth, and Maariv they are told. Watch Israeli…

When Sotheby’s, the great auction house, hosted its first major retrospective of Saudi art last month in London, the Saudi ambassador was present and…

Gulf states have long been known for their young populations, but with longer life expectancies, the dynamics of their demographics are changing…

With the Biden administration announcing that it is sending more troops to the Middle East, there are mounting concerns that the deepening conflict…