Opinion

With Israel having killed so many Hezbollah leaders, including the influential Hassan Nasrallah, Iran's joystick controlling Beirut has been severed. Eyeing a power vacuum is Syria's Bashar al-Assad.

In the months leading up to Israel's war on Lebanon, there were warnings of what would come, but empty sloganeering gave a false sense of security

Now more than ever, world powers need to stop putting roadblocks in the UN's way so that it can carry out its mandate: to prevent conflicts from turning into global conflagrations

With corruption rife and elections looming, power struggles in Baghdad have only intensified. Instead of being impartial, hijacked state institutions foment even more strife.

With the help of Joe Biden, these two foes could agree a deal that withdraws Hezbollah from southern Lebanon in return for peace. A similar deal was struck in 2006. But that was then...

Israel has murdered, maimed and displaced us, but so has Hezbollah. How dare you ask Syrians to support a group that has inflicted so much pain on them for more than a decade?

The scale of the humanitarian crisis is enormous. It is time to urgently help the people who have been suffering for far too long.

A war between Israel and Hezbollah could bring about unprecedented horror and will likely result in the group tightening its grip on Lebanese government and society

US failure to exert influence over Israel means tensions in the region will continue to rise to the extent that the Gaza conflict could soon escalate into a major regional war

Russia and Iran are behind conflict hotspots in Syria, Azerbaijan, and Ukraine. All three are interlinked, revealing the complexity of the new geopolitics

The Fed chair can begin to cut interest rates, which would help Kamala Harris, or leave them unchanged, which is what Donald Trump wants. He is likely to ignore both and focus on data.

Unanswered Israeli strikes on territory controlled by Damascus, linked with Tehran-backed missile production, raise questions over who is really in control