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Area: 22,000 sq km. Population: 9.5m. Prime minister: Binyamin Netanyahu.

The geopolitical conditions for the Israel-Iran war have been brewing for decades, and the past 20 months have seen a titanic ...

Will the Middle East emerge from its disastrous post-Ottoman century? With Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon all weak, the region’s reconstruction in ways that permit peace, stability, and ...

Between October 7, 2023, and October 18, 2024, Israel, Hezbollah, and other Lebanese groups exchanged more than 13,600 ...

Those passengers were relatively lucky, compared with the thousands who had already spent hours in the air and were simply ...

A panel of experts investigating and documenting crimes committed by the old regime share their experiences of working in the ...

Explore the evolving dynamics of the Middle East as Israel emerges as a dominant power amidst ongoing conflicts.

It was predictable that Iran would retaliate against Trump’s bombing of its nuclear sites early on Sunday. The question was ...

Instead, his strategy has been to ignite new, endless wars, claiming that no true peace in the region would be established before terminating all threats to Israel’s security, whether from Lebanon, ...

Syrian architect Abdel Aziz al-Mohammed could barely recognise his war-ravaged village when he returned after years away. Now ...

Critics invoked the spectre of 2003 and the quagmire of Iraq. Opinion pieces warned of regional blowback and a united front ...