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

Europe's "Migrant Hunters"

[caption id="attachment_55254452" align="aligncenter" width="900"] African migrants travel in the back of a truck across the Sahara Desert. (Photo by Jacob Silberberg/Getty Images)[/caption] by…

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The Hollowing Out of the Special Relationship

[caption id="attachment_55254456" align="aligncenter" width="900"] U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and British Prime Minister Theresa May ,participate in a joint press conference at the East Room of…

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What Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga Believe

[caption id="attachment_55254420" align="aligncenter" width="900"] An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter, next to a Kurdish flag, holds a position in Sheikh Ali village near the town of Bashiqa, some…

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Why the U.S. Needs Its Envoys

[caption id="attachment_55254416" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A picture taken on November 17, 2016 shows the national flags of the members of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) states…

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France’s Gamble

[caption id="attachment_55254413" align="aligncenter" width="900"] US President Donald Trump (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron (R) shake hands ahead of a working lunch, at the US ambassador's…

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Hezbollah Won; Hezbollah Lost

[caption id="attachment_55254409" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, speaks during a ceremony on the eve of the tenth…

Hanin Ghaddar

How Saudi Arabia Is Stepping Up in Iraq

by Firas Maksad, Kenneth M. Pollack Some of the best news to come from the Middle East in a long time is the recent and long-overdue improvement in relations between Iraq and Saudi Arabia. It…

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Pay Up, Europe

[caption id="attachment_55254385" align="aligncenter" width="682"] Donald Trump during the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit in Brussels(Picture by Christophe Licoppe/Photonews via…

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Why Does ISIS Spare Italy?

[caption id="attachment_55254370" align="aligncenter" width="3386"] Salvatore Lucania, called Lucky Luciano (1897-1962), gangster of sicilian mafia (with handcuffs and cigaret) leaving the court in…

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The “Great Firewall” of China

[caption id="attachment_55254366" align="aligncenter" width="900"] People congregate and take photographs at a make-shift tribute outside the Google Inc. office in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, Jan…

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