A fictional account of a third Gulf war between America, Israel and Iran explores how such a conflict might reshape Middle ...

Dubai infects the British psyche in a way no other place can match. It is a land in which Britain’s neuroses about decline, ...

Russia recruits thousands of African fighters for its war in Ukraine, often through deceptive agencies promising civilian ...

By contrast, Mr Trump and his cabinet have offered a mess of shifting assertions—about Iran’s missiles, nuclear weapons, ...

On March 4th Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s Socialist prime minister, went on TV to reiterate his opposition to America’s attack on Iran. Spain, he said, would not be “complicit in something that is bad for ...

That meeting was the last time China set itself a growth target as modest as the goal announced on March 5th, the opening day ...

Mr Polanski calls Mr Farage “a fascist”; Mr Farage says Mr Polanski is a “lunatic” supported by “all the heroin smokers”. On ...

Corporate lobbyists push for federal food labelling standards to avoid a patchwork of state laws inspired by the Make America ...

A selection of books examines Iran's turbulent history, from American influence and the Islamic revolution to the recent Woman Life Freedom protests.

A month ago Ukraine’s new defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, did something that may help Ukraine’s war effort more than any ...

In much of the developing world big firms are rare. The typical firm consists of a single worker—the owner. Even among those ...

Britain's populist parties Reform UK and the Greens gain support among economically insecure voters, challenging Labour and ...