“Five strategic keys lock up the world!” declared Sir Jacky Fisher, a Victorian admiral. He was talking about places that command critical waterways:…

The concept of the ‘attention economy’ can be traced back to the 1971 publication of an academic paper that was largely organisational and technical…

While Iran has pledged that a resolution to the war in Lebanon will be included in any potential deal on ending the US-Iran war, respite can't come…

The Spanish novelist and essayist Javier Cercas is one of the most influential voices in contemporary European literature. Known for blurring the…

Will Syria gain from the war with Iran, or lose because of it? Damascus has found itself facing a new test, hemmed in by multiple theatres of…

The prisoner swap carried out on 26 February between the Syrian government and armed factions in Sweida was presented as a humanitarian breakthrough…

The US-Israeli war on Iran has exposed faultlines beyond the battlefield. It has laid bare the fragility of the transatlantic alliance and the…

To empty the Gulf states of their expatriate populations would be to change them fundamentally and detrimentally. For a century, since the dawn of…

In Part 1, the Kurdish-Syrian leader Sipan Hamo spoke of his upbringing, politicisation, and participation in armed struggle, which led him to found…