The Middle East is used to conflict, but the current moment is fundamentally different. Wars overlap, alliances are in flux, and long-standing…
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The Middle East is used to conflict, but the current moment is fundamentally different. Wars overlap, alliances are in flux, and long-standing…
At the recently concluded 2026 Munich Security Conference, the issue of Syria’s Kurds dominated discussions about the Middle East. The leader of the…
The Israeli government has scrapped a longstanding rule preventing Israeli citizens from buying land directly from Palestinians, in a bid to…
The United States is bolstering its military presence across the Middle East ahead of scheduled nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva, while…
There are two Donald Trumps staring at Iran, and neither the Islamic Republic nor Israel knows which one will ultimately prevail. The first is the …
Washington and Tehran may be closer to military confrontation than at any point in memory, but they are not on the brink of war in any conventional…
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington this week for the seventh meeting between him and US President Donald Trump, he…
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Buildings are seen through a veil of fog rolling over the Al-Salmeyya district in Kuwait City on 9 February 2026.
A Palestinian girl plays with another as she pushes wheelchair at a tent camp sheltering Palestinians who were displaced during the two-year Israeli offensive, in Gaza City, on 9 February 2026.
Chinese folk performance known as da shuhua, or molten iron fireworks ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations in Beijing, China, on 9 February 2026.
The Baltic Sea is frozen along the beach in Sierksdorf, northern Germany, on 8 February 2026.
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South Korean students wearing traditional hanbok dresses bow as they attend a graduation and coming-of-age ceremony at a girls' high school in Seoul on 5 February 2026.
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A girl walks past shelters at the Imam Ali Housing Compound, where displaced Lebanese and Syrian refugee Shiite Muslims take refuge by the city of Hermel in Lebanon's northeastern Bekaa valley on 4 February 2026.
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