Welcome to our live blog providing real-time updates and insights from West Asia. Follow the latest developments shaping the ...

In the tidy world of finance theory, mean-variance efficiency guides rational investors to build optimal portfolios: maximise return for each unit of risk. But as global events remind us daily, the ...

Amid deadly Druze-Sunni clashes in Syria’s Sweida province, Israel positions itself as protector of the Druze community, raising questions over whether its true aim is securing a strategic foothold in ...

The Trump administration is treating South Africa almost like a pariah, blacklisting its envoys, refusing to send top-level ...

An Abraham Accords-centric approach tailors the Cold War-era “containment” strategy that George F. Kennan formulated to the Middle East, with Iran standing in for the Soviet Union.

President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is facing questioning from lawmakers for the first time since he was ousted as national security adviser ...

The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.

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The revelation of Chinese military support to Pakistan during the military confrontation that followed the Pakistan-directed ...

The recent strikes could convince Iran and other states that building nuclear weapons is the only way to prevent such attacks ...

For much of the modern era, the Middle East has occupied centre stage in global geopolitics, owing to its strategic geography ...

Despite the precision and scale of US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, Tehran’s regime is likely to rebuild, intensify proxy ...