The 2026 Lebanon-Israel talks have echoes in 1983

Largely forgotten by history, leaders in Beirut and Tel Aviv shook hands on a plan for normal bilateral relations 43 years ago, after yet another Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon.

Elie Kossaifi

Theresa May's Impossible Vision for Brexit

[caption id="attachment_55255828" align="alignnone" width="4585"] British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker address a press conference at the…

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Russian Spy Poisoning

[caption id="attachment_55255818" align="alignnone" width="2052"] Pictured in this file image dated August 9, 2006, is retired colonel Sergei Skripal during a hearing at the Moscow District Court. …

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Deterring Putin’s Hybrid Warfare

[caption id="attachment_55255812" align="alignnone" width="4500"] European leaders pose during the launch of the Permanent Structured Cooperation, (PESCO), a pact between 25 EU governments to fund,…

Maia Otarashvili

Strategic Incoherence in Syria

[caption id="attachment_55255738" align="aligncenter" width="4384"] A Syrian man awaits to be treated at a makeshift hospital in the rebel-held town of Douma, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on…

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Russia's Mercenary Debacle in Syria

[caption id="attachment_55255732" align="aligncenter" width="4388"] Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech as he inspects a parade during his visit to the Russian air base in Hmeimim in…

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The Attack on UK Foreign Aid

[caption id="attachment_55255664" align="aligncenter" width="5184"] British conservative party member of parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg poses as he delivers a petition against the provision of foreign…

Yasmine El Geressi