One of Israel’s most controversial leaders, Benjamin Netanyahu is making the most of a chance to fly under the radar.
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When the network launched in 1996, it radically changed the media landscape of the Arab world. Two decades later, some regimes are still seething.
The deal will give a much-needed boost to Iran’s economy and lend important support to Rouhani’s government.
Vexed argument in the Labor Party about relations with Israel is set to come to a head at the conference later this month of the party’s dominant New South Wales branch. Barring the successful intervention…
US-backed forces in Iraq and in Syria are in the process of rooting Islamic State (IS) fighters out of their strongholds in northern Iraq and eastern Syria. In the case of Mosul in Iraq, the removal of…
The Middle East could be witnessing a foreign policy misfire of epic proportions.
Donald Trump’s predecessor once made an empty threat against Bashar al-Assad – and it didn’t end well.
The destruction of the al-Nuri Mosque and its minaret is a sad blow to Iraqi culture – and a rallying cry too.
Love, it is said, is a battlefield, and it was no more so than for the first goddess of love and war, Ishtar. Her legend has influenced cultural archetypes from Aphrodite to Wonder Woman.
A certain combination of demographics and corruption can lead to political upheaval.
What’s so ‘brotherly’ about a major diplomatic spat?
The sustained assault on IS’s two main strongholds could be followed by years of local and global insurgency.
Protests in Tunisia and Morocco show underlying causes of the Arab uprisings remain intact.
The world’s response to two terrorist incidents in Iran was telling, and ominous.
Terrorist attacks in Iran are evidence that, in the Middle East, there are far too many moving parts for US President Donald Trump’s recent trip to have changed much on the ground.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar have butted heads before, but this time seems different.
A 50-year-old conflict that redrew the Middle East in less than a week tells us a lot about how states can play the media.
Islamic State has destroyed globally-significant sites in Iraq and Syria, but not as wanton acts of destruction. Instead, they are calculated political and religious attacks.
For-profit corporations are deeply embedded in US national security infrastructure – and they’re not going anywhere.
Already one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian disasters, the situation in Yemen is only getting worse.
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