A new book by Lebanese jurist Mazen Shindab provides an invaluable legal resource on the genocide in Gaza, laying bare the flaws of international law and the moral imperative to hold Israel to account
Held and tortured in Guantanamo for three years, Begg was released in 2005 without any charge. He sued the UK for complicity, and years after his release, he continues to advocate for the oppressed.
What began 18 years ago is coming to a head today: the intentional, purposeful denial of food as a biological weapon that kills a population slowly, after first breaking its will
A lot of thought and effort has gone into Israel's media defence and a clear strategy has been hard at work since October 2023, changing the way we see the conflict. Is it now beginning to falter?
Palestinian death is increasingly being seen through the lens of cold political calculations. The world's silence over Gaza's horrors has drowned out the desperate screams of its people.
The army's defeat in such a strategically significant clash could leave a powerful militia in full control of the country's western regions, give it supply lines, and leave millions facing atrocities.
R2P reached a high point in 2011 with global intervention in Libya but was buried by inaction in Syria. Did the global community fail to make it work, or were its ambitions unrealistic from the start?
In 1992, Amra was a teenager in Bihac, Bosnia, just before the start of the Serbian military invasion of Bosnia. She didn’t know what was going to happen when her Serbian best friend told her at…
Beijing would like the week to mark a historic turning point in which a unipolar world finally gave way to multipolarity. To others, it was just tub-thumping bravura. In reality, it was a bit of both.
The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?
After Israel dealt Iran and its regional axis a string of crippling blows last year, Lebanon now finds itself better-positioned to reclaim its eroded state sovereignty. Will it grab the chance?
Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'
An earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this week levelled entire villages and left people trapped under rubble for days, but in the shadow of the Hindu Kush, saviours were thin on the ground