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Why is Israel expanding its offensive in Gaza and what does it mean for the Middle East? Expert Q&A

Why is Israel expanding its offensive in Gaza and what does it mean for the Middle East? Expert Q&A

A Middle East expert explains why Israel is expanding its military offensive in Gaza.

03.04.2025 5

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Why has the Gaza ceasefire collapsed? Why has the US launched aistrikes in Yemen? Middle East expert Q&A

MIddle East expert Scott Lucas answers some key questions after days of violence in Gaza and Yemen.

18.03.2025 6

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Gaza ceasefire deal looks doomed as Israel blockades Strip and bars entry of humanitarian aid

MIddle East expert Scott Lucas addresses the key questions about the future prospects for peace in Gaza.

04.03.2025 2

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Will the Gaza ceasefire hold? Where does Trump’s takeover proposal stand? Expert Q&A

There are doubts that the break in the fighting could even last long enough to make it to phase two.

12.02.2025 7

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Gaza deal: what it means for peace in the Middle East – expert Q&A

A Middle East expert explains how an agreement was reached and what happens next.

15.01.2025 7

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Who is Syria’s new prime minister – and what will he do?

Dressed in a modest grey suit and tie with a light blue shirt, bald and bearded, 41-year-old Mohammed al-Bashir addressed his fellow Syrians on...

13.12.2024 10

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The Russia-Iran -Assad ‘axis of the vulnerable’ is cracking in Syria

The so-called “axis of the vulnerable” is breaking in Syria. Starting in 2016, Russia and Iran, propping up the regime of Bashar al-Assad, needed...

04.12.2024 3

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What the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar could mean for the Middle East – expert Q&A

Israel has announced it has killed Hamas military leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza. Sinwar was apparently killed in a chance encounter on October 16...

18.10.2024 4

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October 7 marks 12 months of escalation into the ‘forever war’ now engulfing the Middle East

One year after Hamas’s mass killing of nearly 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals and abduction of 251 others, and almost a year into the Israeli...

07.10.2024 2

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What will the Lebanon pager attacks mean for Israel, Hezbollah and Iran? Expert Q&A

Many in the Middle East are holding their breath after two attacks on the communications systems of Hezbollah in Lebanon left 37 people dead and...

19.09.2024 2

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How Israel-Gaza will affect the US election campaign – and vice versa

As delegates assembled in Chicago for the start of the Democratic National Convention on August 19, something surreal was happening 6,000 miles...

21.08.2024 2

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Assassination of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders is a gamble for Benjamin Netanyahu that buys him time but risks wider wars

The missile that struck a building in southern Beirut on Tuesday, killing Hezbollah’s senior military commander Fuad Shukr, had been widely...

01.08.2024 10

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