Middle East


Security zone reduction in Lebanon: Will this time be different? - analysis

Representations of the Israeli and Lebanese flags at a memorial near the Israel-Lebanon border, outside Metula, Israel, after Israel and Lebanon signed a framework agreement following US-mediated talks, June 27, 2026.

Israel-Lebanon: The official end of a 78-year war? - comment

This archive image provided by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) shows an Israeli soldier on a jeep patrol on November 1, 1948, along the fledgling Jewish state's northern border with Lebanon.

Islamic regime’s stream of human rights abuses, repression continues, experts say

Naz Gharai, from Tehran, is covered in red paint as protesters call on the United Nations to take action against the treatment of women in Iran, following the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the morality police, during a demonstration near UN headquarters in New York City on November 19