Economic considerations appear to be taking over political and security calculations in the US approach to Iran, particularly as negotiations between…
Pete Reynolds
Economic considerations appear to be taking over political and security calculations in the US approach to Iran, particularly as negotiations between…
A Lebanese government decision to raise fuel prices and VAT has angered citizens across the country. The latest price hike adds $3.50 on every 20…
Racha Mounaged’s debut poetry collection, The Metamorphoses of Medusa, reveals an imaginative mind interrogating the philosophical legacy of Greek…
The Middle East is used to conflict, but the current moment is fundamentally different. Wars overlap, alliances are in flux, and long-standing…
At the recently concluded 2026 Munich Security Conference, the issue of Syria’s Kurds dominated discussions about the Middle East. The leader of the…
The Israeli government has scrapped a longstanding rule preventing Israeli citizens from buying land directly from Palestinians, in a bid to…
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A Palestinian girl plays with another as she pushes wheelchair at a tent camp sheltering Palestinians who were displaced during the two-year Israeli offensive, in Gaza City, on 9 February 2026.
Chinese folk performance known as da shuhua, or molten iron fireworks ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations in Beijing, China, on 9 February 2026.
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Iranian women walk past an anti-US billboard installed on a building at the Enqelab Square in Tehran on 26 January 2026.