At first glance, the world economy looks reassuringly resilient. America has boomed even as its trade war with China has escalated. Germany has…

Had it not been for the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Volodymyr Zelensky—the country’s democratically-elected president—may well have found…

Syria's top security authority, the National Security Office, has recently issued a directive requiring special approvals for tourist and religious…

Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was killed on 2 May 2011 in a special US operation in Pakistan during US President Barack Obama's tenure. He was…

Iran’s barrage of drones and missiles on Israel on 13 April was unprecedented but not entirely unexpected. While the scope of the attack went beyond…

Neighbours and rivals, Algeria and Morocco sit alongside one another at the top of Africa. They have long looked north to Europe to compete for…

Separating the moral of any given issue from politics is neither simple nor straightforward. Those who try often fail, and those who prioritise one…

A new instalment of Fallout, a long-running series of video games, was released recently to rave reviews. Critics called the post-apocalyptic…

The destruction in the Gaza Strip after seven months of war is already on a scale that the world has not seen in almost eight decades. It will leave…