The most headline-grabbing economic effects of the Iran war are immediate, directly felt in consumers’ daily life: Pump prices are up 35 percent, and the

Burned houses and mosques, kidnappings, pogroms, masked thugs attacking unarmed olive harvesters: in the last few years such Israeli settler violence has

At a time when experts are warning of unprecedented democratic backsliding in the United States under the second Trump administration, how should people

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Since January, Donald Trump has fundamentally reshaped U.S. foreign assistance, ostensibly to align with his “America First” foreign policy. The

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In 2014, the Islamic State swept across large swaths of Iraq and Syria, soon emerging as the obligatory lede for every article about the Middle East and

Iraq’s two-decade-long state-building project is facing a precarious moment. On the one hand, the country is closer than ever to having a functioning

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Lebanon has grappled for years with how to manage its Syrian refugee population. This year, though, Lebanon finally adopted an official plan for refugee

It was just a month ago that Donald Trump bombed Iran against the advice of his own intelligence services and claimed that the country’s nuclear

Israel’s bombing of Syria last week, in an apparent attempt to intervene in brewing communal bloodshed in the country’s south, drove home a point that

The first phase of Israel’s war in Iran has been astonishingly effective. Israel is now in total control of Iranian airspace. A who’s-who of Iranian

It may be hard to imagine now, but Syrians once thought of their environmental treasures as being close to the soul of their country. As recently as a

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is, at least as much as anything else, a clash between the haves and the have-nots. Long before Hamas massacred civilians

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