The Integrated Review: goodbye Middle East; hello South China Sea; but still Russia first

Despite the histrionics of domestic American opinion, a single rocket attack in Syria does not indicate that Biden’s foreign policy is likely to be more aggressive

And does Lokman Slim’s murder indicate a change in Hezbollah’s deployment of violence?

Syria’s drug problem undermines the rule of law, empowers militia leaders, and shifts money away from a legitimate economy

Despite dying suddenly and younger than many of his contemporaries, Robert Fisk undoubtedly outlived his era

Remembering the veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk

Power operates within a militia movement in which no one is invulnerable

Lebanon protests are futile as opposition lacks a coherent strategy

Public memory of the war in Iraq fails to consider the human cost