From direct military strikes that took down prominent Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and his successor Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi in 2004 to close…

In 1941, Sir Winston Churchill paid one of his many visits to Canada—a former British colony turned Commonwealth ally— which had always been dear to…

On 4 December 1992, Israeli history professor Yair Hirschfeld and top Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei (aka Abu Alaa) secretly met at the Cavendish…

On this day in 1972, Palestinian militants from the Black September Organisation carried out a complex operation at the Summer Olympics in Munich,…

Syria rolls out its EXPO 2024 exhibition today (on 4 September), targeting local industry in all its forms. Marketed as an opportunity to sell Syrian…

On 4 February 1969, a delegation of flamboyant young Palestinians walked confidently into the office of Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser in…

On 8 July 1974, the Supreme Court asked President Richard Nixon to hand over the unedited tapes of 64 conversations he had held at the White House…

Ismail Haniyeh’ assassination in the heart of the Iranian capital when he was supposedly under the protection of the powerful Revolutionary Guards is…

After a 100-year wait, the Summer Olympics are returning to Paris once again. It is the third time that the French capital has hosted the Games,…

US President Joe Biden’s advanced age and its apparent effect on him have raised eyebrows on the presidential election campaign trail, after several…