Taking El Obeid would allow the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to consolidate its hold on western Sudan, a significant ...

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

On July 17th Rachid Ghannouchi, the 85-year-old founder of Ennahda, the Tunisian political party inspired by the Muslim ...

Assad, currently outside Syria, was convicted in a case involving violence carried out during the conflict, killing around 500,000 people.

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 ...

Assad's 24-year rule of Syria ended abruptly in December 2024 following a lightning advance by rebel forces who struck while ...

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.

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 ...

Egypt has been far less relevant in the war with Iran. It has been eclipsed as a mediator by Pakistan, Turkey and Gulf states ...

Despite wars ranging across the Middle East, more than 20 million Shia pilgrims gather in Iraq shrine city for Arbaeen ...

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 ...

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