Middle East

Abraham Accords 2.0 – turning Gulf fear into diplomatic payment

Middle East Ahmad El Husseini - May 27, 2026.

For nearly two weeks, regional capitals worked tirelessly to prevent the confrontation between the United States, Israel and Iran from becoming a wider Middle Eastern...

Israel enters a political crisis amid a regional war

Middle East Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - May 24, 2026.

On 20 May, the Israeli Knesset supported in a preliminary reading a bill to dissolve parliament, creating the first serious possibility of early elections since...

Britain's navy prepares to clear mines in the Strait of Hormuz

UK TA | AP Insight - May 24, 2026.

Aboard the RFA Lyme Bay docked off the coast of Gibraltar, hundreds of British sailors are waiting to be deployed for a mine-clearing mission to...

Are the US and Iran finally close to a peace deal?

Middle East TA | AP Insight - May 23, 2026.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that a deal with Iran, including opening the Strait of Hormuz, has been “largely negotiated” after calls with Israel and...

Did the US commit criminal aggression in Iran?

Middle East Lawrence Douglas - May 23, 2026.

Many commentators, including those on the right, have dubbed US President Donald Trump’s “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran “Operation Epic Fail”: an extravagant waste of...

Israel’s divorce from the West?

Middle East Ferry Biedermann - May 21, 2026.

Amid the ongoing uncertainty over the conflict with Iran, an increasing regional military footprint and escalating repression of Palestinians, Israel is, more than ever before,...

Board of Peace will ask the UN Security Council to press Hamas to disarm

Middle East TA | AP Insight - May 19, 2026.

The body overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza will ask the United Nations Security Council to press the Hamas militant group to disarm, according to...

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