Rail travel once linked Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, until war and air traffic shut it down. Now, major reconstruction plans aim to revive it over the next 15 years ...

Thailand's Constitutional Court suspended PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra today, pending an ethics investigation over a controversial leaked phone call from last month between her and former Cambodian PM ...

The conviction of Boualem Sansal, an outspoken French and Algerian writer, has worsened tensions between the countries.

French-Algerian author Boualem Sansal is facing five years in prison in Algeria after he lost an appeal against his conviction for “undermining national unity.” ...

The French president’s proposal to recognise Palestine at a UN conference in June was fundamentally flawed by its desire to ...

Morocco’s $1.3bn Atlantic Initiative aims to link Sahel nations to the ocean via Western Sahara, despite coups, rivalries, ...

Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s leader, counts admirers from Nairobi to Jamaica and London. Russia is also courting him.

Group and solo travelers are trickling into Afghanistan by plane, motorbike, camper van and even on bicycles. And the country ...

In a world of shifting borders and fleeting regimes, one truth remains enduring: civilizations remember. Unlike nation-states ...

The Iran-Israel conflict did not begin with uranium. Its roots run deep through colonial partitions, imperial betrayals and shifting alliances that have scarred the region for generations ...