A UNRWA staff member registers a Palestinian family who fled their house in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh to an UNRWA school, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023.
(AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Recent moves to cut UNRWA’s funding are not the first time the UN agency has come under threat.
Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.
Jim Watson,Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
Biden and Trump are polar opposites when it comes to policy. But they have wielded the power of the presidency in similar ways.
Moroccan defender Jawad El Yamiq waves the Palestinian flag at the Qatar 2022 football World Cup.
Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images
Morocco, Spain and Portugal will co-host in a symbol of unity, but history reveals sharp new tensions.
Israelis inspect the rubble of a building in Tel Aviv on Oct. 8, 2023, a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip.
AP Photo/Oded Balilty
The Palestinian fighters who launched deadly attacks into Israel on Oct. 7 are not Iranian puppets – but they are doing the work Iran wants done.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the country’s parliament in Jerusalem on July 24, 2023.
AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo
Benjamin Netanyahu has helped reshape Israel and the broader world in profound ways. And there’s a dark side to those changes.
The Chairperson of the African Union, Moussa Faki Mahamat, speaks during a briefing in Addis Ababa.
Photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images
Just as Algeria and South Africa could not stop Morocco’s entry into the AU, neither can they stop Israeli accreditation.
zz/Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx/AP
Famous for his political wizardry and clever coalition manoeuvres, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister ended up losing the trust of almost everyone in the political arena.
All smiles: but were the Abraham Accords a betrayal of Palestine?
EPA-EFE/Jim Lo Scalzo
The Abraham Accords peace deal was supposed to herald a new era for the Middle East. Yet the fault-lines remain as deep as ever.
The Natanz nuclear facility.
Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA
Most observers believe Israel was behind the a cyberattack on Iran. But what was the thinking behind it?
Emerging powerbroker: Mansour Abbas, the leader of the Ra'am Islamist Party in Israel.
REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Once again the Israeli election has been inconclusive with no clear winner. But this time it’s different.
U.S. President Donald Trump walks to the Abraham Accords signing ceremony at the White House on Sept. 15, 2020, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Opportunities for dramatic change rarely arise in the Middle East. But now is such a time.