Israel appears to be planning to expand its operations to take military control of the whole Gaza Strip. Recognition of ...

South Africa’s president avoided calamity by calling on his diverse delegation. That lesson should be taken forward into ...

Post-PKK Kurdish politics can be transformative because resolution of the Kurdish issue requires a reimagination of Turkish citizenship and nationhood that includes and accommodates Kurdish identity.

Unresolved questions on pathogen sharing and vaccine access have effectively placed the agreement in limbo. And ratification looks far off.

On 19 May, UK and EU leaders will hold a summit focused on resetting post-Brexit relations, covering cooperation on issues including trade, and critically, security and foreign policy. One of the ...

On 14 May 2025, US President Donald Trump met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh. It was the first high-level US–Syria meeting since US President Bill Clinton met with Syrian President ...

Research seeks to generate new insights through bottom-up perspectives and emerging regional expertise on the social contract between MENA states and populations. The Arab Spring uprisings of 2010–11 ...

After three years of an inward-looking German government preoccupied with infighting, new chancellor Friedrich Merz has promised that ‘Germany is back’ – both in Europe and on the international stage.

On Monday night, images circulated of Abdelghani al-Kikli, a powerful armed group commander from Tripoli, lying dead. Kikli, known popularly as ‘Ghneiwa’, had travelled to the Tekbali military camp on ...

The race for AI dominance is gathering speed. Recent moves by Washington and large US tech companies reflect an attempt to compel other countries into making a binary choice: will their AI technology ...

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself in an increasingly precarious position as US President Donald Trump’s tour of the Gulf States unfolded in a direction diametrically opposed to ...