Middle East

19/07/2017 - 12:53

Since 2012, Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese Shiite organization, has been fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against... →

15/06/2017 - 11:26

The caller was Yuri Kotov, an up-and-coming K.G.B. case officer. Two and a half years earlier, he had recruited a man whose K.G.B. code... →

12/06/2017 - 14:44

Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, last cut ties with Qatar in 2014, withdrawing their ambassadors from the country for nine months. But... →

24/05/2017 - 13:33

That moment was the culmination of over a decade and a half of bi-annual meetings between scientists from countries that don’t often get... →

28/04/2017 - 13:33

Every year, RSF publishes a comprehensive survey of the freedom of the media and the press around the world. The organization operates from... →

08/04/2017 - 15:01

Palestinians who are being held in Israeli prisons are "a model for sensibility and national culture and constitute a pillar for the... →

20/03/2017 - 12:24

Ninety-five years on, the sentiments expressed by Palestinian politician Jamal al-Husseini in his 1922 article in Arab newspaper Al-Sabah... →

20/03/2017 - 11:58

Reuters reported that Russia’s special forces had been deployed in western Egypt towards the border with Libya to support its surrogate,... →

20/02/2017 - 16:56

Drawing on a network of scholars in Washington, Beirut, and across the Middle East, the project looks at the socioeconomic upheavals facing... →

23/10/2016 - 13:42

Russia’s beefed-up deployment also affects Israel, which, according to foreign media reports, has launched numerous air strikes on arms... →

18/09/2016 - 11:35

Obama has made very little progress on this issue since then, though not for lack of trying. During Obama’s first term, Israeli Prime... →

14/08/2016 - 13:03

While Europe is often seen as an ineffectual actor in Arab-Israeli diplomacy, the historical reality has been a bit different. The EU... →

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