The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza, particularly in the north of the ...

Freedom is a word that turns up with embarrassing frequency in rock-and-roll songs. How we love to free-associate about ...

I am a 60-year-old Scotsman with a penchant for red suspenders, oolong tea and the novels of Walter Scott, so no one will ever accuse me of being an arbiter of cool. But to understand politics and ...

Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the nation has become a battleground for competing hegemons. The United ...

The French and German foreign ministers are the most senior Western officials to visit Syria since longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled by rebels.

Israel, they insist, is a victim of duplicitous diplomacy, mainly by Arab countries, that condemn its acts of self-defence in ...

Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general and national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, presented a plan he co-authored with the former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz that proposed ...

Sydney welcomed in 2025 as the self-proclaimed “New Year’s capital of the world”, spraying nine tonnes of fireworks from its ...

The more than one million Syrians who fled to Germany have celebrated the end of war in their homeland, but some fear it ...

Ties between Türkiye and Syria have for centuries been brotherly. Despite the tensions brought about by the behavior of the ...