The justification given for attacks by Iran-backed militias on US bases in Iraq and Syria is America's continued support for Israel in its war on Gaza.
In recent weeks, policy gaps between the US and Israel have emerged, both on the scope and nature of Israeli military operations in Gaza and what should come next after this conflict is over.
While it would be unthinkable for Israel to negotiate with a Palestinian entity of which Hamas is part, it is also too difficult to envisage a situation whereby Hamas is completely out of the picture.
Dissenting voices are silenced in pursuit of a media narrative and national consensus that disregards the fundamental human rights of Palestinians and allows Israel to continue its brutal assault
A US envoy wants the institutions of western Libya to accommodate the son of an eastern warlord as Libyan president. Is this another doomed effort to unite the feuding factions, or could it work?
A forgotten lecture by the renowned Italian writer at the University of Bologna in 2008 traced the history of hatred through language, myth, and imagination, all of which still apply today