The UN conference in New York on the two-state solution in Israel/Palestine at first sight appears to have been oddly timed. Shouldn’t the first priority...
Co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia and boycotted by the US and Israel, UN member states' high-ranking officials will examine the chances of a two-state...
The Israeli military on Sunday began a limited pause in fighting in three populated areas of Gaza for 10 hours a day, part of a...
For the first time since the US attacks on Iran, high-ranking European and Iranian diplomats have resumed talks on Tehran's nuclear program. With little progress and...
Syria’s post-Assad future is still uncertain, with a remarkable level of overall stability having been punctured twice now by heinous sectarian violence in which governing...
Democracies and dictatorships have sharply diverging attitudes toward war. Whereas violent conflict was central to the ideologies that helped perpetuate the totalitarian regimes of the...
The conflicts in Syria have shown how fragile the transitional structure is after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime. The question of minorities remains open,...