Understanding the climatic pain points is necessary for policymakers hoping to minimize the war’s negative environmental consequences.

It is improbable that Israel’s forthcoming elections will alter much in terms of how the country thinks about security.

Arab states that have made peace, conduct intelligence dialogue, or are allied with Israel have yet to take stock of ideological trends in the Israeli military that will challenge their assumptions

The real question to ask about the U.S.-Iran standoff is: how much will the looming midterm elections in the U.S. alter options and prospects for a deal?

The armed forces champion a form of capitalism that is generating revenue, but its reliance on rent faces diminishing returns, leaving the country with massive sunk costs and deferred returns, deepeni...

Moshe Tur-Paz is one of many centrist Israeli politicians criticizing Donald Trump’s deal to temporarily stop the war with Iran.

No change in prospects for Lebanon after Trump’s latest announcement of a partial ceasefire between Israel and Hezbullah

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The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said.

The truce between Israel and Hizbollah, extended on 23 April, is hanging by a thread. The monitoring mechanism established for the previous ceasefire could help preserve the current one.

The U.S. blockade threatens Iran with a hurting stalemate and loss of the strategic deterrence it gained through its control over the Strait of Hormuz

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The community seeks maintain a distance from Hezbollah, and an even greater one from normalization with their southern neighbor.

The U.S. blockade threatens Iran with a hurting stalemate and loss of the strategic deterrence it gained through its control over the Strait of Hormuz

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Until and unless Donald Trump ends the Gulf war, Lebanon will remain hostage to Israeli domestic politics

Tehran built a doctrine of resistance designed for export, not for local consumption, but then Washington broke a quarter-century taboo about striking Iran

The boundary between multiple localized wars and world war is becoming blurry

Until and unless Donald Trump ends the Gulf war, Lebanon will remain hostage to Israeli domestic politics

The boundary between multiple localized wars and world war is becoming blurry

Scenes from a day of carnage in Beirut.

The prison in southern Lebanon where thousands were held without charge has been razed to the ground, confirming the fears of a researcher who spent years building a virtual reconstruction of the site

Multiple apps, unpaid data work, surveillance tools and gendered constraints have turned health care digitization into a second, invisible shift for community health workers

Four weeks into the US-Israeli war on Iran, many in Lebanon are suffering under yet another Israeli aggression.

Dragged into a war they did not want, Arab Gulf states are paying a heavy price, with little control over the course of events nor hope of a stable outcome once the war ends

Amid the destruction of the US–Israeli war against Iran, much of the world’s attention has fixed on the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage through which

A game-theoretic assessment suggests the likeliest outcome is a war that gets worse without anyone quite deciding to make it so

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We are launching this appeal in response to the ongoing war in Lebanon and on the Lebanese people and isolation of families who have decided to remain in the South, despite the bombing of all bridges ...

Lebanon’s Mental Health Emergency Response War and displacement are reshaping daily life across Lebanon. Families are leaving their homes, shelters are overcrowded, and communities are under attack. T...

The official aim of Israel’s war on Lebanon is clear: complete disarmament of Hezbollah, argues Yezid Sayigh. But Israel is drawing itself into the same trap as the US in Iran.

The official aim of Israel’s war on Lebanon is clear: complete disarmament of Hezbollah, argues Yezid Sayigh. But Israel is drawing itself into the same trap as the US in Iran.

Israel may be able to inflict massive physical damage, but the notion that it can reshape Lebanese society and politics is sheer hubris

I was seven when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. The memories of a child are vague and grainy, and I cannot vouch for their fidelity, but three images have stayed with me with the sharpness of things tha...

On Sunday morning, June 6, 1982, 40,000 Israeli troops, with hundreds of tanks and armored personnel carriers, rolled across the 33-mile border with southern Lebanon. Israeli seaborne troops landed on...