In just ten days, on 8 December 2024, a surprise military offensive by the armed factions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led ...

Christians around the world are being attacked and killed, forced to flee and driven underground, the annual report finds.

Even before the American action, foreign economists believed the Iranian economy won’t get moving again for another decade. Now it is going to take even longer, and most Iranians were extremely angry ...

The number of Christians persecuted worldwide jumped to 380 million last year, and while North Korea and Somalia remained the ...

Hope suppresses the reality of the future of Syria. Pundits were wrong about the Arab Spring, projecting perspectives into ...

In yet another piece of the jigsaw puzzle of a new Middle East, Mr. As-Sudani sees reining in the Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite ...

Additionally, there is a significant grouping of Arabs who identify as Palestinian who are outside the boundaries of the ...

Netanyahu says hostage release to begin Sunday as cabinet meets to approve deal - Netanyahu’s security cabinet is meeting to ...

The Arab East is a mess-weak, divided, directionless, locked in conflicts, and lacking control of its destiny. Various non-Arab powers have long pr ...

The World Watch List 2025, a list of the 50 countries with extreme levels of oppression, has been released for the period from October 2023 to September 2024. Violence is up in Central Asia, most nota ...

I wish I could say the sheer lack of action with the Biden administration was surprising, but it was hardly unpredictable and ...

Israel’s government voted in favour of the truce after the country’s security cabinet, chaired by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, agreed to the ceasefire and hostage deal earlier on Friday.