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

Shadows of Yarmouk

[caption id="attachment_55249925" align="alignnone" width="620"] People wait in line to receive humanitarian aid in Yarmouk refugee camp, in southern Damascus, Syria, on February 2, 2014. (Rami al…

Badr Shomali

Making Friends, Qatar-Style

[caption id="attachment_55249917" align="alignnone" width="620"] Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister, Ahmed Bin Abdullah Al-Mahmud (C), chairs a meeting of an international commission monitoring a limited…

James Spencer

Iraq off the Agenda

[caption id="attachment_55249876" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iraqi man walks past an election poster fronted by Iraqi prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki (C) on March 25, 2014, in Baghdad. (Ahmad Al…

James Denselow

Yemen’s Information War

[caption id="attachment_55249872" align="alignnone" width="620"] Yemen researcher at Human Rights Watch Belkis Wille presents a report entitled "'A Life-Threatening Career': Attacks on Journalists…

Catherine Shakdam

Rebel Surgery

[caption id="attachment_55249853" align="alignnone" width="620"] Opposition fighters help one of their wounded comrades during clashes with government forces in the Sheikh Najjar district on the…

Tam Hussein

Ankara’s Armenian Charm Offensive

[caption id="attachment_55249844" align="alignnone" width="620"] People hold black and white portraits of Armenian intellectuals who were deported on April 24, 1915, during a commemorative march in…

Barçin Yinanç

Winning Back the Sinai

[caption id="attachment_55249817" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Egyptian soldier stands guard on a watchtower near the border between Egypt and Gaza on September 12, 2013. (Said Khatib/AFP/Getty…

Elizabeth Monier