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Turkish authorities have once again drawn attention to the country’s tightening controls over digital media by blocking access to dozens of...

More than a year after a fragile ceasefire halted large-scale hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, Lebanon finds itself in an unfamiliar...

Cyprus has been plunged into political turmoil following the resignation of the country’s first lady and a senior presidential aide after the...

Libya has ceased to function as a mere corridor between Africa and Europe. It is no longer simply a place migrants pass through on their way north....
Iran is witnessing one of its most intense waves of unrest in years, as nationwide anti-government protests fueled by deepening economic hardship have...

The Middle East has long been a region defined by complexity, fragility, and geopolitical competition. Recent events, however, have underscored a...
Portugal’s most powerful investigative prosecutors have taken over a money laundering probe involving a Ukrainian film producer tied to an alleged...

In the digital age, consciousness is no longer merely a philosophical or cultural concept; it has become a strategic asset. In the Arab world, the...
North Africa enters 2026 carrying a paradox that is increasingly difficult to ignore. On the surface, the region appears relatively stable compared...
As 2025 gave way to 2026, millions of people across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the wider Arab world marked the transition into...
In 2026, the United Kingdom will quietly pass a milestone that few of its political architects once imagined would be marked by such widespread...
For more than six years, Lebanon has lived through what would normally be considered an impossible experiment: a society operating with a hollowed-out...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused the European Union of emerging as the primary obstacle to a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine...
Myanmar’s military junta has pushed ahead with the first phase of its long-promised general election, closing the initial round on December 28 amid...
Britain’s long-running cost-of-living crisis is no longer a temporary shock but a structural decline, according to a stark new forecast from the...
The recent confirmation that Hezbollah is no longer present south of the Litani River marks a pivotal moment in Lebanon’s long and painful struggle...
The United States’ escalating actions against Venezuela have triggered growing alarm across the international community, not only because of their...
History is rarely kind to years marked by unrestrained violence, political cynicism, and international hypocrisy. In the Middle East, 2025 is already...
Russia is positioning Africa as a central pillar of its evolving foreign policy, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declaring that...
The Trump administration’s newly released National Security Strategy marks a decisive break from the assumptions that have guided US foreign policy...
The recent boycott of Lebanon’s parliamentary plenary session by the Lebanese Forces and the Kataeb Party is far more than another episode of...
European Union leaders gathered in Brussels this week under the shadow of one of the most contentious financial and legal debates the bloc has faced...
A diplomatic dispute between Washington and Pretoria has intensified after South African authorities raided a facility in Johannesburg involved in...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s participation in the recent Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Bahrain marked more than a diplomatic...
Sydney was plunged into shock and mourning on the evening of December 14 after a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach left at least...
US House Democrats have released approximately 100 previously unseen photographs obtained from the estate of the late financier and convicted sex...
For decades, Italy’s sprawling criminal syndicates – from Sicily’s Cosa Nostra to Calabria’s ’Ndrangheta – have survived not just through...
When US President Donald Trump traveled to the Middle East in May, few expected the trip to produce a diplomatic turning point between Washington and...
The final communique of the 46th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit, held in Bahrain’s capital Manama on December 3, stands as one of the most...
Sudan’s war has not ended, yet the country is already rebuilding. Amid active frontlines, mass displacement, and a humanitarian collapse,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two-day visit to India on December 4, 2025, marks one of the most consequential diplomatic engagements between...
When 24 humanitarian workers appear before the Mytilene Court of Appeals on December 4, they will not simply be defending themselves against serious...
Georgia’s political landscape has been jolted once again as authorities open a sweeping investigation into a BBC Eye report alleging that police...
More than five years after Lebanon’s financial system imploded, the consequences continue to reverberate far beyond the country’s borders. What...
Labour’s latest autumn budget, delivered with much fanfare by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, may have seemed at first glance a careful balancing act of...
When the United States and the United Kingdom jointly announced what they described as “sweeping sanctions” against the sprawling Prince Group...
Ukraine has launched one of its most assertive economic countermeasures yet against Russia’s wartime operations, unveiling a sweeping sanctions...
Ethiopia is now facing one of the most dangerous viral threats known to modern medicine, as the Marburg virus continues to spread in parts of the...
Lebanon stands once again on the edge of a precipice it knows all too well. The country’s fragile political system, broken economy, and deep...
Turkey has opened a sweeping money laundering investigation into companies owned by Cypriot-Norwegian fintech entrepreneur Ozan Özerk, marking the...
In an unprecedented show of technological and diplomatic coordination, the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia have...
Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Metro was envisioned as a symbol of progress-an ultramodern, 176-kilometer transit network designed to transform mobility in...
The Philippine government has been thrust into a new wave of political turbulence as two top Cabinet members-Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin and...
The upcoming visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Washington marks a pivotal moment not just in bilateral relations, but in the broader...
The debate over reproductive rights in Poland has once again returned to the spotlight, this time through a landmark judgment by the European Court of...
A Gabonese court has sentenced former First Lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and her son Noureddin Bongo Valentin to 20 years in prison for corruption,...
Lebanon is once again standing at the edge of a precipice, facing a combination of internal fragmentation, external pressure, and geopolitical...
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s abrupt conditional release from prison-less than three weeks into a five-year sentence for criminal...
When Singaporean police stormed a string of luxury residences across the city-state on August 15, 2023, few could have predicted just how far the...
The Western media, for all its self-professed commitment to liberal democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, has a very peculiar blind spot. That...