Eight months into the ceasefire, Gazans are still living in tent camps amidst rubble, health crisis, and food shortages, with aid dropping and priorities shifti…
As tensions between the United States and Iran escalated in 2026, political rhetoric increasingly framed the Middle East through narratives of existential threa…
The war targeting Iran has renewed attention on a question that has shaped Middle Eastern politics for decades: what role does the Palestinian issue play in Ira…
For the first time since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded in 1949, European leaders are seriously considering a future in which the U.S…
When Nayib Bukele took office in 2019, he inherited a country exhausted by fear. For years, fear in El Salvador took many forms: gangs, invisible borders, extor…
The fear did not disappear in El Salvador. According to journalists, lawyers, activists, and human rights defenders, it simply changed shape. For years, fear ca…
In this new era of geopolitical instability, the decisions made by the U.S. and China to compete, instead of cooperating, in the international system, have play…
While governments focus on military and diplomatic battles, the current Iran-US-Israel conflict has turned thousands of ordinary civilian seafarers into uninten…
As U.S. migrants retreat from everyday life out of fear of ICE, some locals are quietly opening their arms.
Americans are deeply divided over the U.S. war in Iran, with many worried about the costs and the length of the conflict, a recent poll by the Pew Research Cent…
Hezbollah has functioned as a parallel power within Lebanon, with its clinics, schools and military, asserting a level of influence that some say overshadows th…
Sexual violence against women and girls is escalating amid Sudan’s conflict, even as funding has decreased for the organizations that support survivors. Women-l…
Jordanians largely sympathize with the people of Iran and Palestine, but they are under strain due to the war in Iran.
At the heart of the African continent, the Sahel—a vast belt stretching from Mauritania in the west to Eritrea in the east—groans under the weight of a major hu…
Analysts weigh in on the growing unpredictability of the conflict in Iran
In parts of Yemen where state institutions have collapsed, tribal mediation has become a critical tool for resolving disputes. Now, a woman is stepping into thi…
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