The world may be changing rapidly, mostly for the worse, yet in London’s Somerset House, built with all the stolid permanence of the Neoclassical…

Mounting frustrations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unwillingness to discuss the 'day after' in Gaza burst into the public eye earlier…

In 1973, Ehud Barak might have made one of Israel’s major strategic blunders since its founding. He greenlit and took part in the assassination of…

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…