Lebanon’s parliamentary elections under threat
With three months to go until Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, some suspect that Hezbollah and a handful of political allies are attempting to undermine them.
With three months to go until Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, some suspect that Hezbollah and a handful of political allies are attempting to undermine them.
Last week’s targeting of an Israeli-operated ship off the Gulf of Oman has reignited tensions between Israel and Iran. Such attacks have become too common to be ignored any longer.
The election of a conservative candidate last month in Iran’s presidential elections has raised important questions about the future of Iran’s domestic and foreign policy.
A month since the formation of the new Israeli government, PM Naftali Bennett’s path forward appears as uncertain as ever.
The last-minute agreement between Yamina’s Naftali Bennett and Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid has opened the door to the creation of a new-national unity government.
Iranians are due to go to the polls on June 18 to vote for the country’s next president. With the real power in the hands of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, many consider the presidential race an attempt to conceal the country’s democratic deficit.
After more than a week of fighting, Israeli forces and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip agreed to a cease-fire.
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