Such grand gestures of support for Palestine are popular in South-East Asia. Over two-fifths of its 700m people are Muslim, ...

O N HIS first day as president-elect, Donald Trump united the Middle East. Everyone agrees his second term in office will ...

I’ve heard people in my community say they want to punish Democrats for this war,” said James Zogby, the second speaker and ...

If the old man stayed in power into the 1990s, they reckoned, then his son-in-law, Army Captain Prabowo Subianto, might be a ...

Map: The Economist The IDF denies it is implementing ... is very clearly aimed at getting the civilians to leave north Gaza,” says one officer involved in the fighting. “But it hasn’t ...

The challenge facing China’s rulers is to take advantage of Mr Trump’s comeback, while avoiding the dangers of a second Trump ...

Israel is increasingly operating in parts of Lebanon which are not widely populated by Shias, who are most likely to support ...

IN THE END Yahya Sinwar died brutally in the rubble of Gaza, like tens of thousands of victims of the war he unleashed a year earlier. In a firefight with an Israeli patrol in southern Gaza ...

Vajpayee was followed by Manmohan Singh, who led an unwieldy coalition that nonetheless passed major legislation creating, ...

But it was yet another frustrating reminder for America’s senior diplomat how little he had achieved on his 11th visit to ...

Wikipedia editors have officially added “Gaza genocide” to the “List of genocides” Wikipedia article following a discussion ...

For now at least, Iran is seeking to downplay the Israeli strike; its semi-official news agency, Tasnim, labelled Israel’s ...