Houssam Itani

A Lebanese government decision to raise fuel prices and VAT has angered citizens across the country. The latest price hike adds $3.50 on every 20…

In less than two weeks, two residential buildings collapsed in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing more than 15 people and injuring dozens…

A senior Israeli military official has acknowledged that the number of Palestinian victims in Gaza has reached 70,000, confirming that figures issued…

Pro-government demonstrations in Iran indicate that the West’s hasty predictions of the imminent collapse of the Iranian regime may be premature…

Officials in President Donald Trump’s administration step before television cameras and speak as though reading from a shopping list: Cuba is bad…

Can a meaningful connection be drawn, without artifice or contrivance, between the rising tensions in Yemen among factions that claim alignment…

Many who study contemporary Iran argue that a web of parallel authorities governs the country, each monitoring the others in a system loosely…

Those seeking to understand the new direction in international politics and in the Middle East could do worse than read the 2025 United States…

At the end of this month, the deadline set by Israel will expire: Lebanon must disarm Hezbollah south of the Litani River—and beyond—or face a…

Israel has been striking Hezbollah fighters, weapons depots, and civilians on a near-daily basis since a supposed ceasefire went into effect around…