Middle East

Nicholas Westcott is a professor of Practice in Diplomacy at SOAS University of London. British foreign policy is in a sorry state. In effect, the country doesn’t have one, and...

Ukraine’s military appears to have hit Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in occupied Crimea on Friday, one day after the U.S. announced another $325 million in more weapons for Kyiv. Russia’s...

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 21 – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday that Middle East peace was not achievable until the Palestinians are granted full...

Claudio Francavilla is a senior EU advocate at Human Rights Watch. Portrayed for years as the only Arab Spring success story, Tunisia today is everything but. Since staging a “constitutional...

The presidents of Ukraine and the United States decried Russian conquest in eastern Europe in speeches before world leaders at the United Nations annual General Assembly Tuesday in New York...

WASHINGTON, Sept 20 – U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday will hold their first face-to-face talks since Netanyahu took power in December, with topics...

The five days of talks, which represented the highest-level, public negotiations with the Houthis in the kingdom, come as Saudi Arabia tries a renewed bid to end the yearslong coalition...

The Palestinian health ministry reported “three martyrs” in Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups, revising an earlier toll of two killed. The ministry added in statement that “about 30...

Sept 18 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Elon Musk to strike a balance between protecting free expression and fighting hate speech at a meeting on Monday after weeks...

Sept 16 – The father of Mahsa Amini was briefly detained on Saturday, human rights groups said, amid a heavy security force presence on the first anniversary of his daughter’s...