Why journalism that refuses to simplify, refuses to look away from messy, contradictory realities remains essential to ...

Just days ago, the Middle East seemed on the brink of full-scale war. Iranian-backed militias were escalating their attacks.

Since the state of Israel was established in 1948, Arab countries and post-1979 revolution Iran have not acknowledged their defeats, preferring a policy ...

After arriving in Lebanon on MEA A321neo, I visited several fantastic tourist sites including Jaita Grotto, Harissa, and ...

The Middle East has seen the map of power redrawn time and again in the long shadow of the United States.

But the venture fell through on 30-Mar-2024, when Lebanon 's Minister of Transport and Public Works Ali Hamié announced that ...

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

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 ...

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

President Donald Trump excoriated both Israel and Iran over what he said were violations of the surprise ceasefire between ...

The fraught relationship between the U.S. and Iran isn't new. U.S. involvement in, and conflict with, Iran is complicated and ...