Water-related conflicts have nearly quadrupled since 2020. As World Water Week 2026 begins, Al Jazeera unpacks the data.
The dominant power in the Middle East from now on will not be the U.S. or Israel but Iran. For years, Iran confronted a balance of power in the Middle East that tilted against it.…
'Growing up in hostile environments' (4/7). Based in the Netherlands, Palestinian photographer and filmmaker Sakir Khader has regularly traveled to the Nablus and Jenin regions, w…
Iran’s new Supreme National Security Council leader has warned neighboring countries against supporting increased U.S. economic pressure on Tehran, threatening
It doesn’t take much, especially under conditions like these, to get me swaying. The tune that did it this time was the newish song “Janice STFU,” off Drake’s recent album “Iceman…
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A bomb attack has caused casualties among Syria's security forces on a bus near Damascus, in the latest violence to hit the country since the ouster of Bashar Al Assad 18 months a…
Expanding existing oil pipelines as an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz will be a major focus of talks on Monday in Paris between French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Cro…
I’ve also been considering oyster bars, and this I mean in the more philosophical sense. A raw oyster, I would argue, shouldn’t be considered a food; it’s a drink. The salinity, t…
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which the military said "aimed at creating unrest".
Ex-Colombian President, Gustavo Petro, says restoring ties with Israel amounts to applauding the Gaza genocide.
This essay and poem are now part of the Universe in Verse book. In 1865 — a year before the German marine biologist Ernst Haeckel coined the word ecology, the year Emily Dickinson…