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…

Since the fall of the Assad regime in Syria on 8 December 2024, the country’s border with Lebanon has been subject to an unprecedented mobilisation,…

For the first time in decades, Israeli and Lebanese civilian officials sat across a table in Washington and began talking. The discussions—convened…

A new book sheds light on the importance of the art of Koranic recitation in Egypt, showing how the art form grew, excelled, and then declined over…

Today (23 April), the US hosts the second round of talks between the Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors to Washington. The first meeting of these…

The US-Israeli war against Iran has thrown up a concoction of geopolitical and economic issues, especially in the field of oil and gas, where there…