In under seven weeks during the autumn of 2024, Hezbollah suffered the most concentrated loss of senior leadership in its four-decade history. Israel assassinated its secretary-general, Hassan ...

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The Middle East is increasingly gravitating toward parallel – and potentially rival – security architectures. Rather than pursuing strategic diversification within a shared regional order, the United ...

“Climate point 1” is one of the most important scientific concepts regarding global and regional climate change and serves as a basic indicator for the direction climate change will take in the near- ...

This article is part of a multi-part series on Arab Gulf security. The Sultanate of Oman is a Gulf state, an Indian Ocean state, and a critical Arabian Peninsula state that occupies the most vital ...

Russia is emerging as an important and unexpected mediator in the ongoing war in Yemen, epitomising its resurgence in the Middle East. Yemen plays a crucial role in Moscow’s collective security plan, ...

Countries in the Middle East and North Africa lack any legislative framework to allow legal gender recognition (LGR) for their transgender populations. This legislative vacuum has forced transgender ...

For Iraq, the fallout from the U.S.-Iran war is no longer limited to missiles, burning ships, or fears over the Strait of Hormuz, because it is now threatening something far more sensitive inside the ...

More than a decade after the Arab Spring, women in Libya face an unprecedented level of violence and intimidation that limits their ability to participate in public safely and freely, in both ...

As conflict between Iran and a U.S.-Israeli coalition reshapes the strategic landscape of the Middle East, long-suppressed national questions are re-emerging across the region. Among them is the ...

When it was discovered that two Emirati citizens were among the 19 hijackers involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the country’s leadership was deeply concerned.[i] Affiliates of Islamist terrorist ...