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 ...

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.” ...

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

A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to ...

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 ...

The roots of the term ‘pariah’ lie in the name of a caste group called ‘Pariayar’, which originated in Tamil Nadu. In the West, however, the term took on a political meaning of its own in the European ...

Although the Israeli state may appear more powerful than ever and overly confident that it will achieve regional dominance, ...

The British had already cut off this southern extension, but French colonial administrators had other arbitrary plans. They created further divisions in the western areas, parcelling the region of ...

Al-Sharaa led the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s toppling of the Assad regime last year — ending a dynasty that had ruled the former French colony since 1971. Last week, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed ...

Paris isn’t just helping Syria rebuild; it’s setting the terms of that rebuilding to favor French interests. At the same time, Macron’s rhetoric on human rights rings hollow.