Middle East

Israel begins a limited pause in fighting in 3 Gaza areas

Middle East TA | AP Insight - July 27, 2025.

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...

The Europeans threaten Iran with sanctions if it does not accept monitoring of its nuclear program

Middle East TA | AP Insight - July 25, 2025.

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...

Do Syria’s clashes with the Druze foreshadow confrontation with the Kurds?

Middle East Ferry Biedermann - July 24, 2025.

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...

Russia and Israel are locked in interminable wars of choice

Middle East Shlomo Ben-Ami - July 21, 2025.

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...

Fragile peace in Syria strained under the weight of internal tensions and external expectations

Middle East TA | AP Insight - July 19, 2025.

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,...

Will the conflicts in Netanyahu's cabinet have an impact on the Gaza peace process?

Middle East TA | AP Insight - July 15, 2025.

The announced withdrawal of the ultra-conservative party from the coalition could leave PM Benjamin Netanyahu with only a razor-thin parliamentary majority. Even if the withdrawal of...

The cash brokers have become the masters of life in Gaza

Middle East TA | AP Insight - July 11, 2025.

After most of the banks in Gaza closed in the early days of the war, those with large reserves of cash suddenly had immense power....

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