After decades of Assad rule by a family closely allied with Iran and belonging to the Alawite (an offshoot of Shiism) sect, a project to reassert…
Lina Jaradat
Libya is at its lowest point since 2020, when a ceasefire ended the civil war between the UN-recognised government in the west and eastern forces led…
After US President Donald Trump imposed 145% tariffs on all imports from China, Beijing retaliated with its own tariff increase and also banned the…
When Nada Koussa represented Lebanon at the 2024 Miss Universe pageant, her outfit, styled by Lebanese fashion designer Joe Challita, was crowned…
At the Brussels Conference in March, US Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Levant and Syria engagement in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Natasha…
When it comes to dealing with Iran’s nuclear programme, there have been dozens of suggestions over the years. Ideas come and go, in vogue then out of…
When two nuclear-armed powers square up to each other as India and Pakistan have done over the disputed territory of Kashmir, the rest of the world…
Shortly after midnight on 7 May, exactly two weeks after a terrorist attack in Kashmir, Indian missiles streaked into Pakistan. Pakistan’s army said…
Gaza starvation, Vietnam War commemoration and papal selection
Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP
Rahaf Ayyad, a 12-year-old Palestinian who is suffering from malnutrition due to an Israeli-imposed starvation campaign, sits at a school-turned-shelter in al-Rimal in central Gaza City on May 4, 2025.
REUTERS / Darrin Zammit Lupi
Activists are prevented from approaching the damaged Gaza Freedom Flotilla vessel "Conscience", after Israel bombed it while carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, at sea outside Maltese territorial waters, on May 3, 2025.
MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP
Soldiers march during a parade marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City on April 30, 2025.
REUTERS / Stoyan Nenov
Christian pilgrims inspired by the medieval Knights Templar order walk towards St. Peter's Basilica at St. Peter's Square, ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope on May 4, 2025.
REUTERS / Louisa Gouliamaki
People descend the Bramante Staircase at the Vatican Museum during a press tour ahead of the conclave, at the Vatican on May 2, 2025.
OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP
Russian T-90M tanks drive across Dvortsovaya Square during a rehearsal for Victory Day, where Russia will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany, on May 3, 2025.
CNS / AFP
Chinese astronaut Cai Xuzhe sits on a chair as ground crew help remove two more Shenzhou-19 astronauts from their capsule after they landed in China’s Inner Mongolia region on April 30, 2025.
REUTERS / Khalid Abdelaziz
A view shows a large plume of smoke rising from a fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, on May 6, 2025.
REUTERS / Lesley Martin
A person reacts during the Beltane Fire Festival, inspired by ancient Celtic and Pagan May Day rituals celebrating the coming of summer, at Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, on April 30, 2025.
Arun SANKAR / AFP
A young Buddhist monk looks on as he walks after reciting morning prayers at the Gyuto Monastery in Dharamsala, India, on May 5, 2025.
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Trump's peace-through-strength doctrine
