Middle East

Is Lebanon's invitation to Israel for direct talks too late?

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

With airstrikes rocking Beirut and Israeli troops advancing against Hezbollah, Lebanon's government has broken a taboo by proposing the first direct talks with Israel in...

Gulf states face tough choices

Middle East Don Aviv - Sam Worby - March 16, 2026.

The United States and Israel have launched a war that the Gulf states invested heavily in diplomacy to prevent. Now they find their civilian infrastructure...

Turkey believes Iran is open to back-channel diplomacy

Turkey TA | AP Insight - March 15, 2026.

Turkey’s powerful foreign minister said Saturday that there is no serious initiative to resume negotiations between the United States and Iran but that he believes...

Is there a broader Asian strategy behind the US campaign in Iran?

Middle East Hussam Radman - March 15, 2026.

In the second week of the U.S.–Israeli military campaign against Iran, Tomorrow’s Affairs raised a pre-emptive question: would Central Asia remain insulated from the consequences...

In the shadow of oil, the food crisis is an equally dangerous consequence of the war in Iran

Middle East Bram Govaerts - Sharon Burke - March 14, 2026.

Since the start of the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, only a handful of the 100 vessels that once transited the Strait of Hormuz each day...

Whose vision of the end of the war in Iran will prevail?

Middle East Shlomo Ben-Ami - March 13, 2026.

The US-Israeli war on Iran flagrantly violates international law. But so has nearly every other war since the adoption in 1945 of the United Nations...

Attacks by pro-Iranian hackers are spreading in the West and the Middle East

Middle East TA | AP Insight - March 12, 2026.

Pro-Iranian hackers are targeting sites in the Middle East and starting to stretch into the United States during the war, raising the risk of American...

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