The headline-grabbing maritime boundary deal announced between Lebanon and Israel this week produced several winners and losers. Determining who is who is another matter. Leaders in each country claimed

It’s been a busy few weeks for Iran-related headlines: domestic turmoil triggered by the death of a Kurdish woman while in custody

Since the Syrian uprising erupted more than a decade ago, tens of thousands of Syrians have simply vanished. Protestors arrested

Vladimir Lenin once said, “there are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” The latter certainly

As Europe prepares for a winter without Russian gas, the Kremlin is looking to move its natural gas sales farther

The September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, while in the custody of Iran’s morality police has sparked

Turkish musicians, from guitar players to violin virtuosos, are putting down their instruments as a wave of political censorship sweeps the

On August 28, Syrian Kurdish security forces backed by the United States launched an operation targeting ISIS sleeper cells in the Al-Hol

In recent years, a seemingly endless stream of conferences, workshops, and studies have been conducted to answer a key question

The election victory of Giorgia Meloni in Italy has left journalists scrambling around for adjectives. Is her Brothers of Italy

The average human body contains some 7 octillion electrons (that’s 27 zeroes) that weigh, altogether, just 19 grams. These tiny particles should

Few other companies have been so closely associated with environmental causes than Patagonia. When the company announced this month that

A defining image across Asia over the past few decades has been the construction crane looming over a horizon of tall, box-style

Since the start of the year, hundreds of Syrian civil servants have reportedly resigned from their jobs, angered over meager pay that is

The latest round of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan will come as little surprise to most. After all, the two states have

Queen Elizabeth II was never a parochial figure, solely of interest to the UK and Northern Ireland, and the 14