Since January 2025, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention system has increased in size. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) r…
Iran’s hardship did not begin in February 2026 with the U.S. and Israeli attacks. Sanctions, currency shocks, weak investment, subsidy cuts and chronic inflatio…
Iran’s nuclear debate is often framed as a simple choice: build a bomb or remain below the threshold. But the more dangerous position may be the space in betwee…
An August deal between the governments of China, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to expand on a regional trade corridor at Lake Tanganyika m…
More than 1,000 airstrikes against the Houthis since March 2025 have failed to stop their operations. They continue attacking shipping and expanding control of …
Harga or Harraga, a frequently heard term in Morocco often described as “burning the borders,” is becoming increasingly used and could easily get out of control…
Five years after its February 2021 coup, Myanmar is a laboratory for a new political order, where armed conflict and transnational organized crime have fused in…
Indonesia is having an influential diplomatic moment — high tempo, new pacts, a president personally driving foreign policy across the world stage. Yet the prin…
Recent agreements reached in Saudi Arabia and Beijing suggest a new Middle East order. The reality is a cautious standstill. The Gulf is not building an indigen…
China’s President Xi Jinping and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi signed an agreement on Sept. 2 in Cairo to expand on the countries’ ties, which could b…
I was standing on a sidewalk on Gemmayze Street in Beirut, Lebanon, when I spotted a man wearing a white glove coming toward me. Then came another white-gloved …
The Middle East is a region where some wildlife has been subjected to the possibility of extermination.
The United States has long been operating under the idea that if it puts a vice grip on Iran’s economy, its leaders will eventually become more reasonable. The…
When conflict is discussed, women are often introduced through the language of suffering: the displaced, widows, survivors, and mothers protecting children. The…
When Teodora, 22, asks her parents to tell her stories from when they were young, one scene keeps returning: her mother crossing the streets of Belgrade to meet…
Algeria’s growing influence is a timely topic for the international community, especially after the Aug 10 killing of Libyan Major-General Fawzi al-Mansour in a…
The United States and Cuba share a bitter history that spans nearly seven decades. The U.S. federal indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro in April on…
On Aug. 7, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca, carrying a political and geopolitical message that goes far beyond the …
While some Tunisians nostalgically recall Ben Ali-era stability and stronger livelihoods, others see his rule as the repression that made the revolution necessa…
The Trump-Modi relationship is facing a new test. As India balances ties with the U.S., Russia, Iran, Europe, and Pakistan, South Asia’s geopolitical landscape …
In April 2025, state agents arrived in East Sarajevo to arrest the president of Republika Srpska and withdrew in an armed standoff without firing a shot. Three …
NATO's summit in Ankara on July 7-8 had threatened to go off the rails even before U.S. President Donald Trump and his counterparts sat down to work, the Associ…
Iran’s wartime economy is still moving, but much of that movement is defensive rather than healthy. Sales, deposits, and transaction values have risen in some a…
The feature explains how regional conflict reshaped the UAE's security priorities, energy strategy, and diplomatic role amid persistent geopolitical uncertainty…
Sudanese civilians are facing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises since the conflict began on April 15, 2023, with journalists operating in one of…
Despite challenges of Syria’s physical reconstruction, Syria’s tech diaspora believes digital recovery can start immediately. As sanctions ease and global platf…
In Africa, where the harshness of nature meets the law of the jungle, another form of trade is flourishing. It is neither the trade of weapons nor drugs; it is …
More than 15 years after Muammar Gaddafi's overthrow, Libya remains divided between rival governments backed by competing foreign powers. Their continued u…
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…
In November 2024, Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire drawn almost verbatim from Resolution 1701 of 2006, a framework that had never been fully implement…
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.
Egypt, a nation that receives tens of billions in oil and gas deals with the Persian Gulf states, is paying a heavy price from the war and for its posture towar…
The new Morocco–Nigeria pipeline highlights the importance of economic growth and can serve as an example of conflict resolution through economic cooperation. B…
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…
Amid a fragile ceasefire between the Democratic Republic of Congo and a rebel group, there is a high-stakes struggle between the U.S. and China over the Congo’s…
Regional rivalries and armed factions clash in a conflict that could redraw the future of the Sahel and possibly lead to the emergence of a terrorist state in t…
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…
The anger directed at referees, players, or rival fans can mask deeper dissatisfaction with systems or governments that feel unjust.
Pakistan has managed to balance the interests of major global players—releasing doves of peace toward Iran instead of bullets, in one of the world’s most volati…
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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