Area: 22,000 sq km. Population: 9.5m. Prime minister: Binyamin Netanyahu.

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Israel’s June 2025 campaign wasn’t a repeat of 1967, but it carried the same spirit of preemption, speed, and strategic transformation.

The Iran-Israel war, long simmering in the shadows through proxies and intelligence skirmishes, finally erupted into a direct ...

Asharq Al Awsat Lebanon’s veteran Druze leader Walid Jumblatt on Thursday called on the Iran-backed Hezbollah group to hand its weapons over to the state, saying arms must be exclusively under ...

When the dust settled, the March massacre claimed the lives of at least 1,700 Alawites. Ziad, currently in Lebanon and ...

The comments come after a billboard appeared in Tel Aviv calling for an expansion of the Abraham Accords alongside several ...

The Abraham Accords may soon include Syria and Lebanon, according to Israeli media, with the Trump administration working to ...

To those who know the Middle East, such thoughts make little sense. They are hogwash.

Past foreign-led efforts to bring about regime change in the Middle East have all too often unleashed instability, extremism, ...

No. In October 1980, Donald Trump, 34 years old, slender and soft-spoken, had answered a series of such questions from the ...

But that is what happened in the middle of the night on June 23rd, the 12th day of a war between Israel and Iran. Donald ...