Dear Colleagues, Syria is in the news. Following an August agreement, Turkey has started training Syrian forces. Russia had a ...

The Israeli airstrikes on Hamas leaders in Qatar jolted the region, and beyond. For the past two years, Israel has struck targets in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and even deep inside Iran. But Tuesday’s ...

Dear Colleagues, Iran’s deeply unpopular clerical regime apparently wants to improve the relationship between rulers and the ...

For many Yemenis, America was a leap into the unknown. Some disguised themselves among passengers, others slipped into the dark confines of cargo holds, and all eventually found themselves ...

For the first time, the conflict between Israel and Hamas has pierced the heart of the Gulf. An Israeli airstrike on a building in Doha has redrawn the map of the war and thrust Qatar, ...

On May 25, 1981, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was founded in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. At its third summit the following year, in November 1982, the bloc’s Supreme Council approved ...

The sounds of explosions are no longer confined to Gaza or southern Lebanon. In Doha – where Qatar has long hosted rounds of negotiations between Israel and Hamas – Israeli warplanes ...

The African Sahel has long been a theater of influence struggles between Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Today, a new player is stepping into the arena. In N’Djamena, as in Bamako and Niamey, Israel ...

In his program on Alhurra’s digital platforms, writer and journalist Ibrahim Essa this week discussed the Islamist obsession with women and sex, and how the issue of women is politically exploited ...

In his weekly show on Alhurra’s digital platforms, writer and journalist Ibrahim Eissa dives into one of the most contentious questions in Islamic history: Religion and politics in Islam. For the ...

Yemen appears in every threat assessment, yet it is absent from the screens. What happens there does not stay there. Trade routes are affected, the regional balance of power is being rearranged, ...

As regional tensions rise and signs of military escalation grow, Israel and Iran are moving swiftly to redraw the rules of engagement. While Israel reshapes its defense priorities and accelerates ...