Middle East and Africa

In Iraq, the factions aligned with the Iran-led Axis of Resistance are confronting the American troops while also aiming to gain full control of the Iraqi state

Nearly wiped out in the aftermath of World War I, refounded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and finally revived by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, over the course of a century the Anatolian country has risen as an influential regional power

Speech by Jalel Harchaoui at the international conference “Changing Course. Migrants and Europe”

Full translation of the statement in which the head of Hamas’s military wing launched the attack on Israel

The statement from the Al-Qassam brigades launching the 7 October attack provides insight into the objectives and nature of the Palestinian Islamist movement

A century after the foundation of the republic, the legacy of “father of the Turks” has been challenged, but it cannot be erased

What routes are taken by people trying to cross the Mediterranean to get to Europe? Who do they turn to? What role is played by governments and authorities in transit and destination countries? We asked Luigi Achilli, an expert in migration and transnational crime

A glimpse into the political parties that are undermining Israeli democracy and aim at establishing a de-facto annexation of the West Bank

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Introduction to Anatomy of a Defeat by Sādiq al-‘Azm

Arab Spring: a definitively closed parenthesis or the jolt of a historical cycle that is anything but over? The leader of Oasis no. 31.

In his famous Self-Criticism after the Defeat, the Syrian philosopher Sādiq al-‘Azm outlines a merciless diagnosis of the ills that have ordained the failure of the progressive Arab regimes, thereby condemning the peoples of North Africa and the Middle East to a profound and still unresolved crisis