BEIRUT: From a narrow angle, Beirut looks a picture of elegance and success, its French boutiques, luxury hotels and imported cars blending into Mediterranean...
LONDON: Arranging a phone call with the president of the United States used to be seen as a diplomatic win. But increasingly it comes with serious risks, from...
LONDON: In the two weeks since attacks blamed on missiles or drones shut down half of Saudi Arabia’s oil output, the country that has arguably moved...
PARIS: Pledged donations from French billionaires, companies and ordinary citizens for the restoration of fire-ravaged Notre-Dame cathedral are approaching...
PARIS: It began as a home-spun Facebook campaign against French fuel tax increases. But in a few weeks it has spiraled into a movement powerful enough to...
PARIS: In his first year in office, French President Emmanuel Macron has had some big wins – he’s changed labor rules to make hiring and firing easier, stared...
PARIS: Fancy some 232-year-old pornography, written in the Bastille and hidden behind a stone? How about something (even more) intellectually stimulating –...
PARIS: Never let it be said that President Emmanuel Macron doesn’t care about how he comes across. For the first television interview of his 5-month-old...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM / RAMALLAH: Palestinian politics is a relentless and often fruitless pursuit: After more than two decades of on-off negotiations, a state...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: At first glance the video looks like a promotion for a luxury offshore development, a Dubai Palm-style project on the Mediterranean. Then...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Within days of capturing East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war, Israel was examining options about...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: If Jared Kushner has a plan to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict, so far he’s giving little away. In the four months since President Donald...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: U.S. presidential trips are an opportunity to project power and burnish statesmanship. But they come with diplomatic dangers and potential...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israeli intelligence experts are gravely concerned that U.S. President Donald Trump’s sharing of classified information with Russia may...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM/GAZA: A hunger strike by more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners over their treatment in Israeli jails has turned into a heated dispute over...
RAMALLAH, West Bank/TEL AVIV: The backstreets of Ramallah are a long way from Silicon Valley, but a niche venture capital fund is trying to narrow the gap...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel’s politics are darkening: The governing coalition, in power for barely two years, is in tumult and regional tensions are rising....
WASHINGTON: As he stood on the podium next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump said he was open to new ideas that would...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: When Benjamin Netanyahu sent a tweet in support of President Donald Trump’s plan for a wall along the Mexican border, the Israeli prime...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON: During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s team spoke often about moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv...
RAMALLAH, Palestine: Palestinian politics hasn’t seen much change in the past 10 years – President Mahmoud Abbas has been in power since 2004 and the last...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel should be concerned about the deepening disconnect between Russia’s aims in the Middle East and its own goals, according to a...
BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, Palestine: Hundreds of bullet holes scar the concrete walls, shop fronts and trash-strewn alleys of Balata, the occupied West Bank’s...
ISTANBUL: Looking across Istanbul’s skyline, it is impossible not to be struck by the array of red-and-white, star-and-crescent flags fluttering from...
RAMAT GAN, Israel: In early 2013, a young Israeli businessman registered a web domain in London for a company called NRGbinary.com. The online options trading...