When it comes to dealing with Iran’s nuclear programme, there have been dozens of suggestions over the years. Ideas come and go, in vogue then out of…

Since an alliance of militias led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) entered Damascus in December to put an end to the rule of the Assad family, analysts…

There is an old proverb: “May you live in interesting times.” The Middle East, particularly the Levant, seems to experience nothing but interesting…

Finally, Syria is free. Its people are able to determine their own future for the first time in nearly half a century. But can the new authorities…

Four days ago, just a few hours after the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon was announced, a new crisis in Syria erupted, with renewed fighting centred…

At the National Mall in Washington in 1963, civil rights leader Martin Luther King declared: “I have a dream.” They are four of the most famous words…

On 28 September—on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York—Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan…

In violation of international humanitarian law and the United Nation's own charter, Israel’s Knesset on Monday banned the United Nations Agency for…

At Hatzerim Airbase on 23 October, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant told Israeli pilots that “after we strike Iran, everyone will understand…

Since the end of the Cold War, the international system has been in transition. To what end is not yet clear, but the whatever happens next, Africa…