Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has visited Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, marking his second trip to the city in two months. According to local officials speaking to Al-Araby al-Jadeed, the visit began on Wednesday and will last two days. On the first …

Poland is finally joining in the scramble for Ukraine after naively sitting on the sidelines all these years. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was surprisingly candid earlier this month when talking about how Poland plans to profit from Ukraine. In his words, “We will help [Ukraine] – Poland is in …

The name Rafah once evoked images of sea-breeze evenings, Friday picnics under fig trees, and streets so familiar they felt like the palm of my hand. Now, the name echoes differently — I hear evacuation orders, war maps, and headlines forecasting its erasure. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently declared …