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Speaking to reporters at Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina on February 13, US President Donald Trump said, unambiguously
On January 27 US President Donald Trump declared on his Truth Social media platform that Iraq would be making a
On January 12, when riots and violent protests had been wreaking havoc across Iran for more than two weeks, US
Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has become something of a puzzle. His words increasingly appear at odds with his actions.
The first week of 2026 witnessed a significant turnaround in US policy in the Middle East. A key factor
It would be ironic, to say the least, for the UK or the UN to censure Israel for recognizing Somaliland’s
The people of Yemen are living through one of the world’s worst humanitarian and economic crises. Yemen, long a tangle of...
President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan would appear to be stuck. Whatever covert preparations may be in hand to implement
On December 16, US Central Command convened a multi-nation conference in Doha, the capital of Qatar. Its purpose was to
On September 30, the day after President Trump’s ceasefire plan for Gaza was launched, a report in the National – the English...
Back in September Lebanon’s army chief Rodolphe Haykal presented the government with a plan to ensure that, by the end of 2025,
With Israel the object of so much vilification from prominent individuals, organizations, UN agencies and judicial bodies, the work of
Sooner or later the regeneration of Gaza will have to be tackled. Before too long, assuming the ceasefire holds, the
November 9 saw the resignations of both Tim Davie, BBC Director-General and Deborah Turness, its head of news. It was
Aron Heller is a Canadian-American-Israeli journalist, author, and broadcaster. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was still a child when his
On October 26 the people of Ireland voted overwhelmingly for Catherine Connolly as their new president. Receiving 63% of first-preference
The US and most of the Middle East now want to get on with disempowering Hamas, installing effective governance in
The past few weeks have seen the emergence within Gaza of armed factions challenging Hamas. Simmering for some time, this intra-Palestinian...
Whether Trump’s peace plan for Gaza is implemented partially or fully, the end-game is in sight. However we reach the
On September 17 Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s interim president, who was briefing reporters in Damascus ahead of his trip to the
“You’ve got to accentuate the positive” ran the lyrics of the hit song of 1945, continuing with the equally sound
It was on August 5 that the Lebanese government, under pressure from the US as well as from Israeli strikes,
For decades French leaders have tried to position France as a prime mover in solving the Israel-Palestinian issue. Time and again...
On August 27 US President Donald Trump summoned a tight-knit group of advisers to the White House to discuss a comprehensive
“True to its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East,” posted France’s President Emmanuel Macron
When Ahmed al-Sharaa – or Mohammad al-Julani as he was then – swept down with his militia from the north
High drama in Lebanon: On August 5, in response to mounting US pressure to commit to a disarmament timetable for
It was, doubtless, a combination of factors that led the Hamas leadership to conclude that their best interests lay in
Over July 28-30 a ministerial conference at the UN representing 17 countries and the Arab League, but boycotted by the US
Can 28 foreign ministers be wrong? That was the number who put their names to a joint statement published on July 21
Sudan has been tearing itself apart in a brutal civil war for two long years. A clash between two powerful
By Sergio Martinez In the mid-20th century, schools in communist countries were tools of the state. History lessons became hagiographies
Ahmed al-Sharaa, the interim President of Syria, has the world guessing. Is he the Sunni jihadist leader of an Islamic
By Truong Son In less than a year as general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, To Lam has made
On March 4 Egypt presented to a meeting of the Arab League a detailed and costed plan for the reconstruction,
In any consideration of a possible regime change in Iran, one potential leader stands symbolically head and shoulders above anyone
It was almost exactly eight years ago, on June 26, 2017, that a huge digital clock was placed prominently in
CANZUK (an acronym formed from the initial letters of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK), is an advocacy body
The US invaded Iraq in 2003 to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein. When the fighting was over, the UN
One day the fighting in Gaza will end – how or when remains a matter of speculation, hope or despair. With
In the afternoon of Monday, May 19, David Lammy, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, rose to his feet in the House of
It boils down to two stark alternatives. Negotiate a full hostage release, end the war and leave Hamas still functioning;
When President Donald Trump visited the Middle East in May 2025, he found it much changed from the last time
For more than a decade one name keeps surfacing as a possible future Palestinian leader that could be acceptable not only to the Arab world but...
In this detailed and deeply personal account of the horrific events of October 7, 2023 and their aftermath, Douglas Murray
Syria and Lebanon are slipping from Iran’s grasp. The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria represented a major geopolitical
In a nutshell, the Iranian regime wants an end to the sanctions that have crippled its economy while keeping an eventual nuclear
On March 18, 2025 a cross-party group of UK parliamentarians published the results of a deeply researched investigation into Hamas’s
Yemen is at the epicenter of national and international interests at odds with each other and battling for supremacy. At
On April 2, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Qatar as “a complex country”. The epithet seems a trifle inadequate. Qatar