Browsing: Middle East
The US’s rich Gulf allies were at loggerheads in a nasty feud fuelled by divergent ideologies and old grudges. US…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made the Trump administration’s sanctions policy clear in March 2025, when he spoke to the…
TikTok and Instagram have been flooded with videos of Iranian women smashing, dumping and even setting fire to their makeup products from Huda Beauty…
Terrence G Peterson’s Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency is a deeply researched and strikingly lucid account…
Few phrases associated with pro-Palestine activism have become as contentious as “globalise the intifada”. The slogan has been criticised by…
Syria’s government and the Syran Democratic Forces (SDF) have agreed to a ceasefire deal and plan to integrate their military…
The US this week is trying to sway Saudi Arabia to get behind an attack on Iran, one US official briefed…
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) refusal to grant temporary humanitarian release for a detainee to attend his son’s funeral this week…
Turkey deployed three F-16 fighter jets to Mogadishu on Wednesday amid increasing Turkish investments in Somalia’s energy and space sectors. Somali…
Since the 11 September 2001 attacks and the passage of the repressive Patriot Act, the US and the so-called liberal…