The Kurdistan Region of Iraq experienced a severe escalation in aerial security threats during July 2026, enduring 48 drone and missile attacks that predominant
Body horror is often bloody and gory, argues the novelist Heather Parry, but it is also a vessel for social commentary. Here she recommends five books that explore notions of bodi…
A British maritime monitoring agency said a cargo ship reported being hit by a projectile overnight off the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz, while the United States and Iran…
The seventh round of direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon began in Rome on Tuesday, with Beirut demanding an end to Israeli actions that it says impede implementation of…
Information obtained by Channel8 indicates that Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander Mazloum Abdi and Autonomous Administration official Ilham Ahmed met wit
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will attend a key meeting on Jerusalem in Jordan with the participation of the top diplomats from prominent regional countries to discuss Israel’s unl…
British band Massive Attack have said they are "surprised and disappointed" after two of their members were barred from performing in Singapore for displaying a Palestinian flag d…
Todd G. Buchholz argues that the country should supply defense software, not just semiconductors, to the democratic world.
Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa met on Aug. 3 with Nechirvan Barzani, leader of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, as official sources told AFP the talks aimed to advance an inte…
New diplomatic push undertaken as repeated ceasefire failures expose limits of mediation. Tehran denies US talks as Oman negotiations over Strait of Hormuz make progress Islamabad…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Tuesday that ongoing diplomatic discussions with Iran and Oman have yielded progress toward expanding commercial
Dubai's population has rebounded since the start of the Iran war, with 157,000 more people living in the emirate compared with the start of the year. Official figures show the pop…