The most important lesson of the 2026 Hormuz crisis is not that the strait has become less important. It is that Hormuz has become so important that dependence on it is itself a s…
The UN Security Council held its second secret straw poll on Friday in the race to succeed Secretary General Antonio Guterres, as eight candidates compete for the international or…
Oman has spent decades cultivating a reputation as one of the Middle East’s most reliable diplomatic go-betweens, maintaining a long-standing strategic partnership with the US whi…
Leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom will co-chair the meeting of countries pledging defense support to Ukraine in Kyiv on Monday, the French presidency said Friday. …
I recently looked back at a photo I’d taken on a smartphone in 2014, and I was struck by just how good it looked. The details were soft, the shadows were dark. It was the kind of …
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has called on Israel to cease its provocations against Türkiye and military operations that would undermine the country’s na…
Welcome to the golden age of ultra-processed health foods. Ice cream is one of life’s simplest and most enduring culinary pleasures. The first published recipe, which dates back t…
France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Norway and the Netherlands have issued a joint statement calling Israel's decision to publish tenders for construction in the so-called E1 area of…
Agatha Christie brings to mind English villages, country houses, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and suspects hiding in plain sight. But that’s only half the picture. Some of her fine…
Harvest festivals in Germany, a solar-energy base in a Chinese desert, high-diving in Slovenia, hurricane damage in Hawaii, a traveling circus in France, and much more
Whether taught in the classroom or learnt through hardship, the Arabic word dars can describe all manner of insights gained in everyday life. In the classroom, dars al-yawm means …
Farhad Atrushi, the Second Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament and a lawmaker from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), stated that a "unified" Kurdish stance in Baghdad and a…