The Trump effect could upend the Middle East

Even before the ceasefire in Gaza Donald Trump had begun to reshape the Middle East. He was influential in pushing Israel to ...

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Catch up:Trump plans sweeping first-day measures; Palestinian prisoners released

Donald Trump told his supporters that “four long years of American decline” would end after his inauguration on Monday. Speak...

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Trumpism is becoming more pragmatic, argues Reihan Salam

DONALD TRUMP is enjoying a honeymoon. As he wryly observed in December, “[In] the first term, everybody was fighting me. In t...

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The beginning of the end of the Trump era

THE MOST jarring difference between Donald Trump’s first and second inaugurations will be the setting. Eight years ago he spo...

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The start of a fragile truce in Gaza offers relief and joy

PEOPLE IN GAZA and Israel celebrated the start of a ceasefire and the return of three young women held hostage by Hamas on Ja...

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Catch up:Palestinian prisoners released; TikTok reprieved

Israel said it freed 90 Palestinian prisoners as part of a ceasefire deal with Hamas. Earlier three Israeli women were return...

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Russian trainee pilots appear to be hunting Ukrainian civilians

KHERSON, A REGIONAL capital in southern Ukraine, endured eight months of Russian occupation before Ukrainian forces liberated...

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Catch up:first Israeli hostages released; Trump plans TikTok executive order

The Israel Defence Forces said that three hostages released by Hamas had arrived in Israel. A ceasefire deal belatedly took h...

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Catch up:Gaza ceasefire begins; TikTok goes “dark”

Palestinians in Gaza began returning to their homes, many destroyed, after a ceasefire took hold. Food trucks crossed the bor...

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Catch up:Gaza ceasefire begins; TikTok goes “dark”

Palestinians in Gaza began returning to their homes, many destroyed, after a ceasefire took hold. Food trucks crossed the bor...

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