Tag: Middle East and North Africa

Exactly two years ago, on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas crossed into Israel and killed around 1,200 people. It was an awful, inhumane attack. But that day also triggered a chain ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Israel’s seizure of activists and aid bound for Gaza, France’s arrest of crew members aboard an alleged Russian shadow tanker, and ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. We’re back to our regularly scheduled programming after the nonstop action at UNGA 80 last week. Thanks again for reading our coverage! Alright, ...

BEIRUT—The new Lebanese government, elected and formed in the aftermath of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hezbollah last year, is pursuing an audacious U.S.-backed plan to disarm all nonstate ...

“Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t be a fool!” U.S. President Donald Trump implored Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a 2019 letter. The jury might be out on how ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, our final edition from the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) before we resume our usual weekly programming next Thursday. Alright, here’s what’s on tap ...

Writing in Wednesday’s New York Times, Israel’s former minister of defense, Benny Gantz, criticized the growing wave of Western governments recognizing the state of Palestine. “The growing support in the ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where we are at the midway point of a packed UNGA week. Alright, here’s what’s on tap for the day: Ahmed al-Sharaa introduces ...

Relations between Israel and Arab Gulf countries are at their lowest in decades. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to strike Doha on Sept. 9 may prove to be the ...

“We Jews are still here, but where are the ancient Greeks?” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked me, a classical historian, this question 10 years ago when we met at ...