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 ... as it is flawed by a total lack of understanding of the Palestinian experience and history, and by a denial of the colonial nature of ...

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.

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 Transatlantic Divorce' (3/5). On August 31, 2013, as French warplanes were en route to Syria to launch a joint operation with the US against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, which had used ...