Municipal elections in the city may be a harbinger of developments in the Sunni community. In a Lebanon teetering between old patterns and new possibilities, a local election in one of the country’s most marginalized cities might seem like a footnote. It isn’t. The May 11, 2025, municipal elections in …

The future of warfare may be decided by AI, but will humans have a role to play? In the 1983 film War Games, a supercomputer known as WOPR (for War Operation Plan Response) is about to provoke a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, but because …

In the May 11 parliamentary elections, Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama secured another decisive victory, reinforcing a dominance built over three consecutive terms. His machinery of consensus is stronger than ever, but the lines between the state and the party appear increasingly blurred After three consecutive terms in power, Albanian …

Dozens of notorious Balkan crime figures have obtained Bosnian passports using stolen identities and insider access. The cost is borne by innocent citizens, whose names then trigger red alerts at the border. Dozens of violent criminals have fraudulently obtained Bosnian passports in the past decade, taking advantage of an insecure …

For the first time, a march labelled specifically as “anti-immigration” took place in Poland on Saturday, even if the message has often been heard before on the streets of Polish cities, particularly during the annual Independence Day parades held on November 11. Saturday’s protest took place in the last days …

Setting the wildfires aside, Israel and its society must confront the crimes, both ecological and engineered, it is committing in Gaza, writes Alex Foley. On the evening of April 29, a spasm of panic broke out at a Memorial Day ceremony in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square. Ushers at the event …

Iraq is a key hub allowing Iran access to the international financial system, but the US is turning up the pressure on the country’s banking system. The US is tightening its maximum pressure grip on Iran by focusing on one of the key hubs that allows Tehran access to the …

Officials in the Trump administration are confused about how to proceed with lifting sanctions on Syria after Trump’s surprise announcement Tuesday When President Donald Trump announced in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that he would lift all sanctions on Syria, the decision, which will boost a country devastated by 13 years …

The Jordanian government has called on all individuals holding assets belonging to the now-dissolved Muslim Brotherhood Association to report them to the Ministry of Social Development within one month, or face legal consequences. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Barq Al-Damour, Secretary-General of the ministry and head of the committee …

“What we expect from the Turkish state—both the government and the inner-state opposition forces—is that concrete democratic and legal reforms are implemented,” Zagros Hiwa told TNA. In a momentous development poised to reshape the political and security landscape of the region, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has officially declared its …