Ibrahim Kalin, head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT), hosted senior leaders of Hamas in Istanbul on March 22, underscoring Ankara’s continued engagement with the Islamist group amid ongoing regional conflict. Kalin met with members of Hamas’s political bureau to discuss the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire signed in …

“Put it away,” this was the response Hiba* received from a court employee, when she submitted her handwritten request for the Public Prosecution to investigate the death of her husband and two sons, and put the criminals on trial. On March 7, pro-government Sunni militants in military uniforms had stormed …

For nearly two decades, the Litani River functioned as an informal red line in the uneasy balance between Israel and Hezbollah. Under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Lebanon War, the area south of the river was meant to be free of heavy Hezbollah military presence, …