Middle East

Will integration help the Kurds in Syria preserve their rights?

Middle East TA | AP Insight - August 26, 2026.

Kurds in Syria’s northeast regarded the announcement that the Kurdish-led force that once controlled the area has been dissolved with mixed emotions, while international players...

Could ideas for an Israeli-Palestinian confederation salvage the fading two-state solution?

Middle East Harvey Morris - August 26, 2026.

Government leaders and former diplomats in the UK and France have warned that Israel’s latest settlement project in the Palestinian West Bank could extinguish the...

Israel no longer has the final word on the Gaza investigations

Middle East Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - August 21, 2026.

The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Israeli ambassador to Warsaw for a meeting, following the decision of the Israeli military judiciary not to...

Gaza's economy lives on smuggling

Middle East TA | AP Insight - August 20, 2026.

The smuggling of goods restricted by Israel into the Gaza Strip has boomed, with items from cigarettes and iPhones to fuel and solar panels making...

Who decides whether Syria is allowed to have an air force?

Middle East Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - August 20, 2026.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz today accused Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of dragging Turkey into “dangerous adventures” in Syria. Two days earlier, Israeli aircraft struck the...

Does the US have good options after the 60-day deadline for ending the war with Iran?

Middle East TA | AP Insight - August 17, 2026.

The deal that U.S. President Donald Trump signed at Versailles in June set an ambitious 60-day deadline for ending the war with Iran and reaching...

Iran’s economic debacle is the result of an authoritarian system

Middle East Daniel Lacalle - August 17, 2026.

Tehran can no longer plausibly claim that war alone explains the country’s economic collapse. The latest inflation figures show not a temporary shock but the...

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