Lebanon front opens up amid US-Iran war

Attacks by Hezbollah and an Iraqi militia appear to be a calculated step by Tehran to widen the arena of conflict in a bid to raise the costs for its adversaries

Elie Kossaifi and Fayza Diab

Pushed into the Shadows

[caption id="attachment_55250436" align="alignnone" width="620"] Graphic artists paint a wall in Sana'a, Yemen on January 28, 2014. (Sinan Yiter/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)[/caption] “Violence…

Catherine Shakdam

Departure of the Jedi

[caption id="attachment_55250430" align="alignnone" width="620"] One of the original Star Wars filming locations in Tataouine, Tunisia. (Jean-Claude Gallard/Getty images)[/caption]Tatooine, the…

Youssef Cherif

Turkey's Game-Changer?

[caption id="attachment_55250389" align="alignnone" width="620"] Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Ekmeledin İhsanoğlu. (FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/GettyImages)[/caption] There…

Nicholas Birch

Rouhani and his Opponents

[caption id="attachment_55250364" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech during a rally in Tehran's Azadi Square (Freedom Square) to mark the 35th…

Shahir Shahid Saless

One Less Voice from Yemen

[caption id="attachment_55250360" align="alignnone" width="620"] A view of the deserted studios of a private TV channel Yemen Today after military soldiers stormed the building and shut down the…

Peter Salisbury

Truth Telling in Tunisia

[caption id="attachment_55250343" align="alignnone" width="620"] Tunisians, who are also victims of torture, protest during a ceremony to unveil the Truth and Dignity Commission on June 9, 2014, in…

Eileen Byrne

Counting on the Kurds

[caption id="attachment_55250325" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iraqi man displays military badges at a shop in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, on June 16,…

Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel

The Water’s Edge

[caption id="attachment_55250331" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Palestinian boy squirts water from a tap in the street on March 20, 2014 as the construction of a major seawater desalination plant…

Thomas W. Lippman

Infected by Panic

[caption id="attachment_55250274" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Indian worker wears a mouth and nose mask as he touches a camel at his Saudi employer's farm on May 12, 2014, outside Riyadh. …

James Spencer

The Sultan’s Reign ends with a Bang

[caption id="attachment_55250305" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Still from Magnificent Century (Muhteşem Yüzyıl/TIMS Productions)[/caption]It was almost an impossible dream in the beginning. When…

Ahu Özyurt