Middle East


After years-long drought where Syria, Iraq were running out of water, dams are now full - analysis

Fishermen ride in their boat through the Iraqi Hawizeh Marsh in Maysan province, southern Iraq, after water returned due to rainfall following a long period of drought on April 26, 2026.

Iraqi-based Iranian-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah offers to ‘buy’ weapons from other militias

Fighters lift flags of Iraq and paramilitary groups, including al-Nujaba and Kataib Hezbollah, during a funeral in Baghdad for five militants killed a day earlier in a US strike in northern Iraq, on December 4, 2023.

Return to Beaufort: Israel’s symbolic conquest of a Lebanese Crusader fortress - analysis

IDF shares footage of operation in Beaufort Ridge, May 31, 2026.