Russia is expanding a network of military and drone-launch facilities along its western border, bringing parts of NATO territory within range of its…

Three centuries ago, in 1729, author Jonathan Swift used the cold language of arithmetic to suggest that Ireland’s poor sell their children as food…

From New Alamein to Ras El Hekma and Alam Al Roum, Egypt’s northwest coast is transitioning from a strip of resorts that fills up in the summer to a…

Last week, Syria’s Central Authority for Control and Inspection revealed serious irregularities in oil production and contracting in Deir ez-Zor. Its…

Syria continues to move towards becoming a unified and stable state, and towards something more fundamental still: a normal country, the kind neither…

In more than 20 years of closely following US politics, foreign policy, and the issue of Palestinian liberation, there has always been one clear…

In a celebrated passage from In the Presence of Absence, the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish summons cities through their scents, granting each an…

The influence of a currency has traditionally been measured by its share of central-bank reserves, or by its use in international trade and the…

The US Navy is running two missions in the Gulf at the same time. One seals Iran's coastline, blocking any vessel from entering or leaving an Iranian…