Assad's 24-year rule of Syria ended abruptly in December 2024 following a lightning advance by rebel forces who struck while the Russian and Iranian allies who had backed him through years of civil ...

Shaped in its early years by the Iraq war and crisis in Lebanon, Assad's rule was defined by civil war, which spiralled out of the 2011 Arab Spring, when Syrians demanding democracy took to the ...

Middle East Eye investigates the increasingly close relationship between Nigel Farage's anti-immigration party and the United Arab Emirates ...

Tunisian photographer Zied Ben Romdhane has documented his country since the fall of Ben Ali and the Arab Spring in late 2010. His work captures the deep malaise of a generation that has known only ...

In an interview with JI, Hood reflected on a career included stints working on Iran policy, relations with Gulf states during ...

The Gulf state has deployed a mixture of cash and charm to become one of America’s most important Middle East allies ...

When I started my university studies in the 70s, Morocco was in turmoil after the ICJ's advisory opinion on the Moroccan ...

Bashar al-Assad was sentenced to death in absentia by a Syrian court. Thisis a moment of reckoning for the former president whose 24-year rule ended with his 2024 overthrow and exile in Russia. Here i ...

The ongoing Syrian civil war, which began in 2011, has seen tens of thousands of casualties, shifting alliances, and foreign ...

As soon as Islamic extremists were identified as having carried out four deadly, coordinated attacks on U.S. soil in the ...

Some of the world’s largest energy exporters dislike the emerging deal to reopen the waterway but fear going back to war would be worse.

Behavioural science helps explain why this model works. Daniel Kahneman distinguished between fast, intuitive thinking and ...