Militaries worldwide will be watching closely and learning lessons from Habsora's application. Only time will tell what those lessons will be.

Israel's disproportionate assault on Gaza in response to attacks from Hamas has reinforced Arab, Islamic – and increasingly – rising global commitment to ending Palestinian suffering.

Unless the United States decides to topple the regime in Tehran — which it won't do — the Iran problem is not one to be solved but managed.

The worry is that the Populist right current does lasting damage to democratic politics institutions and norms while in power

Besides the war in Ukraine, Gaza has been a defining foreign policy challenge for the Biden administration and larger US interests in the Middle East

As pressure mounts in the US to "do more" to deter attacks allegedly backed by Iran, Iraqi armed factions seem ever more divided.

The US wants to end the war by expanding the circle of mediators, involving Saudi Arabia, and placing the Abraham Accords on the table in exchange for a final settlement

The intelligence failure that led Israel to misread Egypt in 1973 is, in fact, the same as that which led it to believe Hamas was not looking for war.

Darfur is part of a more intricate conflict involving the region's armed groups, complicated by their relationship with the army, the central authority, and neighbouring countries in the region.

During the 1948 Nakba, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to The New York Times in which he compared Irgun, the paramilitary wing of Zionism at that time, to "Nazi and Fascist parties".