The new aid plan bypasses the UN and uses private charities and security firms to deliver aid in Gaza, with fears it is a fig leaf to advance mass displacement The US is establishing a new system relying on private firms to coordinate humanitarian aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip, …

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 …