Far from being fatally weakened, as many analysts predicted, the military regime is coming back stronger and taking back lost territory. Have we been asking the wrong questions all along?

In Benin and across West Africa, riders viewed with suspicion as motorcycles now synonymous with armed fighters.

Rebels backed by ISIL (ISIS) have killed at least 52 civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this month, according ...

Rethinking Ancient Imagery from the Levant to Mesopotamia. Studies offered to Tallay Ornan, edited by Benjamin Sass and Laura Battini (Oxford, 2025), in 712 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages, with ...

Awsat, reveal a sophisticated IRGC-run network smuggling Iranian weapons to Yemen's Houthis via complex routes through the ...

Barrack, who has turned into Trump’s troubleshooter in the Levant, read the Lebanese government the riot act last month, telling Aoun and his cabinet that they must issue a formal cabinet-level ...

The Druze are a religious minority in the Levant, the region covering roughly modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Palestinian territories.

The Department of Homeland Security is looking to boost its deployment of the military on the streets of the U.S. in order to help carry out Donald Trump’s immigration policies, according to a leaked ...

Israel’s strikes in Syria, framed as protecting the Druze, reflect a strategy to fragment the Syrian state and secure Israel’s role as the dominant regional power.

In alignment with President Trump’s goals for US policy in the Levant, Barrack’s efforts have shown that diplomacy can be unorthodox yet effective.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeologists working at the Tinshemet Cave in Israel believe they’ve discovered one of the world’s oldest human burial sites. Dated to ...

After almost two years of fighting in Gaza, and after the decimation of Hizballah, the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, and the 12-day Israeli-American war on Iran, the Middle East is in new ...