Analysts are asking if this is just another Damascus bluff, gesturing away from Tehran only to emerge backing it, or is this a genuine generational shift, towards the embrace of Arab states?

Where once honour and custom would confer certain privileges and passes, women living under the rule of religious extremists today face new levels of danger and marginalisation, with no end in sight

Moscow wants to make sure the opposition—or anyone else for that matter—doesn't get any funny ideas and attempt to disrupt the status quo it established when it intervened in Syria nine years ago

Dialogue has begun over a geopolitical flashpoint, and the two presidents of the Turkish-Greek island agreed to sit down again, but any progress will be painstaking

With just three weeks to go before the US presidential election, many critics see the letter as too little, too late

Now is not the time for political manoeuvring. We need leaders capable of putting Lebanon's interest first.

Uncoordinated fronts of so-called "resistance" have done little to slow Israel's slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Quite the contrary, it has only expanded the killing to include Lebanese.

The Hamas and Hezbollah leaders still alive are full of fighting talk. What world are they living in? Acknowledging reality is the first step towards finding the solutions their populations need.

When massacres are met with such indifference, silence is the only thing that seems fitting

A new and improved system should be centred on a Lebanon-first policy. Foreign agendas should never come at the expense of the Lebanese people.

Israel's PM has repeatedly chosen escalation over US calls to temper its actions. Biden's inability to restrain America's closest ally bodes badly for the region.

Hamas is all but destroyed and Hezbollah has been badly wounded, perhaps fatally. Meanwhile, the Houthis and the militias in Iraq have also been hit. Is Iran next?