A pathbreaking call to halt the intertwined crises of cultural heritage attacks and mass atrocities and mobilize international efforts to protect people and cultures.

It’s easy enough for the Trump campaign to file a lawsuit claiming improprieties, but a lot harder to provide evidence of wrongdoing or a convincing legal argument. Here’s what you need to know as...

Israel’s defense minister has told ground troops to be ready to enter the Gaza Strip, though he didn’t say when the invasion will start.

The fear that shock and outrage in Israeli society over Hamas's massacre will be exploited for ethnic cleansing on a large scale should not be waved off.

After the riot at the US Capitol, fear lingers about what could happen in the future, given how far President Trump, his congressional allies, and his supporters were willing to go to attempt to stay...

We are in shock as we digest the Hamas attacks and the failings of Netanyahu’s government. The worry now is what comes next, says journalist Orly Noy in Jerusalem

Saudi Arabia promised it would put safeguards in place against human rights violations. The promise was a fiction.

Mohammed bin Salman thinks he can push America around. He needs to be taught a lesson.

Cairo’s City of the Dead is the oldest Muslim cemetery in the world – so why is the Egyptian government routing a motorway through the site? Hussein Omar urges them to slam the brakes

There’s a pervasive censoriousness right now—conservatives denouncing liberals, liberals denouncing leftists, leftists denouncing other leftists—that’s immediately familiar from the days and weeks...

Bari Weiss and a lineup of right-wing hacks and charlatans are bilking donors out of cash for a school that doesn't exist

The dread Israelis are feeling, myself included, has been the daily experience of millions of Palestinians for far too long.

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The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.

The new city, estimated to cost tens of billions of U.S. dollars, is a centerpiece of President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi’s plan for modernizing the country.

How one team of reporters got it right.

Much of the enclave is a battlefield, with 2 million civilians and combatants intermixed and hospitals both safe haven and target

Iranian artists and athletes who express solidarity with protesters are the latest targets of a government that senses its legitimacy is at stake.

The gravity of the crimes against humanity in Xinjiang deserves global action, or else abusers like the Chinese government will be further emboldened.

Despite much progress in developing the country over the past several decades, the Saudi government’s increasingly absolutist monarchical rule and systematic human rights abuses give the Saudi people...

As more countries in the Middle East re-establish diplomatic ties with his regime, many Syrians are losing hope of living in or ever returning to a Syria without Bashar al-Assad.

The government says the new approach is not a response to pressure from the Biden administration.

A few weeks after the United Arab Emirates announced its normalization of relations with Israel last August, it repealed a law that had been in place since 1972: Federal Law No. 15, known as the...

Author and journalist Rula Jebreal spoke to Democracy in Exile following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and against the backdrop of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Author and journalist Rula Jebreal spoke to Democracy in Exile following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and against the backdrop of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

President Joe Biden’s campaign pledge to treat Saudi Arabia as a “pariah” was always hard to believe.

How has the suppression of the history of the Nakba shaped Western policy toward Israel and Palestine over the past 75 years?

This morning the Israeli military ordered more than a million people in northern Gaza to evacuate within twenty-four hours. That’s half the population of

The magnitude of the catastrophe in Sudan requires all international powers to work together to end this war.

Mohamad Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemeti, has been trying to shred the brutal reputation he earned during Omar al-Bashir’s rule.

The U.S. is an active and complicit partner in Gaza's killing fields, and judging by official statements, the Biden administration is proud, even boastful of its role.

Rashid Khalidi on the colonial logic that devalues eyewitness accounts of the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh

US president’s trip highlights the limits of what Washington can do to help those in the occupied territories

Some things haven’t changed in seven years. One of the first pieces I wrote for WPR was on the prospects for transitional justice in Syria someday, roughly three years into a civil war that still...

The United States can—and must—wield its power for good.

Details of the former president’s agreement to work with a Saudi firm to develop a hotel and golf complex overlooking the Gulf of Oman highlight the ways his business and political roles intersect.

He was just doing his job.

The president is consolidating one-man rule while the economy, sapped by mismanagement, the pandemic and war in Ukraine, flails. Groups that helped avert a past crisis are largely silent.

Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an AI system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza.

U.S. policy toward Israel and Palestine hasn’t brought us an inch closer to peace. In fact, it’s made things worse.

In the fall of 2012, almost two years into the Egyptian revolution, there began to be more and more reports of sexual attacks on women at demonstrations

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