Can anything stop a full-scale conflict in the Middle East?
The fact that the Middle East stands on the brink of a catastrophic war can be explained by a scene…
AI and the new way of war
What is happening in Gaza now provides a glimpse of how all wars may be fought in the future —…
Could a Trump conviction really change the presidential election?
The first time I heard the name ‘Michael Cohen’ was in 2015, from a Republican political operative who told me:…
Inside the new Arab-Israeli alliance
As Jordanian fighter jets shot down Iranian drones heading for Israel on Saturday night, there were joyful cries of Allahu…
Low birth rates are a threat to humanity
The village we moved to in central Italy is lovely – old stone houses and olive trees on a hillside – but…
How low birth rates could threaten our civilization
The village we moved to in central Italy is lovely — old stone houses and olive trees on a hillside…
Have the Houthis gone rogue?
The US and Britain really didn’t think they had a choice about bombing Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on…
Can the killing of innocent civilians ever be justified?
Israel has made the first, rather tentative, moves of its ground operation against Hamas – but there’s nothing tentative about…
Can Israel’s hostages be saved?
The last message that Shaked Haran saw from her father was just after 7.30 a.m. on the Saturday of the…
Unholy war
What Iran gains from provoking Israel
Prigozhin sent ‘to hell’, but who gave the order?
As the first reports came in that Yevgeny Prigozhin had been killed, I spoke to Marat Gabidullin, who was a…
Crime and punishment
What went on between Putin and Prigozhin?
Prigozhin’s bid for death or glory
Up until this point, it was possible to believe that Putin was tolerating, or even orchestrating Yevgeny Prigozhin’s increasingly outspoken…
Long game
How Saudi Arabia is buying the world
Shadow play
The covert war between Iran and Israel
