Damascus has recovered its natural cadence. Within it, the old and the new live side by side, the steadfast and the changing, reassurance shaded by…

Since October 2023, Arab cinema has found itself at the heart of Germany’s intensifying debate over the war in Gaza. This is especially true of…

Lebanon’s ongoing direct negotiations with Israel in Washington this week would have been impossible to envisage were it not for the transformations…

As Lebanon begins negotiating with Israel, it has appointed Ambassador Simon Karam to head his country's delgation. A second round of talks in…

For the first time in more than a decade, fighting forces from rival factions in eastern and western Libya have been brought together, in a military…

For a commodity essential to everything from pharmaceuticals to agriculture and mining, sulfur rarely makes headlines. But the Iran war is showing…

On 22 April, Israeli drones closed in on the journalist Amal Khalil as she reported on attacks in southern Lebanon. She took refuge in a nearby house…

In the deepening stand-off between Iran and the US over who controls the Strait of Hormuz, resolving the crisis comes down to a simple question: who…

In a development that reveals how deeply warfare has been transformed by technology, Ukraine is increasingly relying on robots and intelligent…

US-Iranian negotiations have gone nowhere. For his part, US President Donald Trump unilaterally extended a two- week ceasefire that had been…