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The harrowing sounds of war in Gaza no longer come from just whistling bombs but from projected screams via Israeli quadcopters sent out over refugee camps at night. Lina Jaradat

Sounds of screams and barks: Israel's aural terror of Gaza at night

Israel's quadcopter drones are fitted with loudspeakers and flown over camps after midnight playing the sounds of children screaming and women pleading. Those who go out to help are then shot

Salem Al Rayyes 21 August 2024
The stakes are high as Israel and Iran go toe-to-toe throughout the region with a series of strikes and counter strikes. Will it be managed, or will it end dramatically? Shutterstock

At a crossroads: the Middle East now has but two choices

The past ten months have upended policy trajectories relating to the Middle East. How the conflict unfolds in the coming weeks will have huge and unpredictable consequences for millions

Paul Salem 17 August 2024
Members of Hezbollah carry the coffin of Wissam Tawil, a commander of Hezbollah's elite Radwan forces who was killed during an Israeli strike on south Lebanon in Khirbet Silem, January 9, 2024. Aziz Taher/Reuters

Unpacking the puzzle: Israel’s killing of Hezbollah’s commanders

The Lebanon-based militia has evolved its approach to losing senior personnel. These days, few who are felled are big names. Yet its problems go deeper than public relations

Lina Khatib 06 August 2024
A billboard portrait of slain leaders Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas (L), Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani (C), and Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr (R) on the main road near Beirut Airport on August 3, 2024. Ibrahim Amro/AFP

Betrayed from within: how Israel thoroughly penetrated its enemy

Only with inside knowledge could Israel have killed so many senior figures from Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian military. The axis of resistance needs to face facts: it is completely compromised

Alia Mansour 05 August 2024
Fares Garabet

Backs to the (same) wall (as the enemy)

Fares Garabet 05 August 2024
Participants in a memorial hold a photo of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Iran on 31 July 2024. Reuters

No easy options: Hamas enters into the politics of delusion

Netanyahu's government will stop at nothing to destroy the group behind 7 October and is prepared to make the Strip uninhabitable. To survive, Hamas only has difficult roads ahead

Majed Kayali 05 August 2024

A false 24-year claim about farmland killed 12 young footballers

A fascinating first-hand account from a former ambassador of the conversation about the Shebaa Farms that uncovered the lie that Hezbollah uses to justify its continued 'resistance' against Israel

Frederic C. Hof 03 August 2024
Smoke rises after an Israeli air-raid on the town of Shamaa (Chamaa) in southern Lebanon on August 1, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters. AFP

The politics of Israel’s unprecedented strikes in Beirut and Tehran

A gloating Benjamin Netanyahu gives himself leeway with his far-right coalition partners, but Israelis are in no mood to cheer, while Iran and Hezbollah are working out how to hit back

Michael Horowitz 02 August 2024
Ismail Haniyeh's assassination in Iran is merely the latest in a long line of Israeli killings and attacks in the Islamic Republic. Axel Rangel Garcia

Haniyeh a one-off? Israel is no stranger to assassinations in Iran

The Hamas chief joins a growing list of Israeli enemies to be gunned down or blown up in the heart of the Islamic Republic

Sami Moubayed 01 August 2024
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been critical of Israel's war in Gaza Getty Images

The rattling of sabres between Israel and Turkey grows louder

After Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's recent comments about military action, the two states seem to have hit a new nadir. Yet it wasn't always so, and some suggest there is no fire with the smoke

Omer Onhon 31 July 2024
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Closure denied: the agonising search for Gaza's vanished

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Those who are able to bury their dead are among the lucky. For others, not knowing the fate of their missing loved ones or receiving mutilated corpses impossible to identify adds insult to injury.

Salem Al Rayyes
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02 November 2025

After 54 years in exile, a prominent Syrian novelist returns to a Damascus he no longer recognises 

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