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Saturday, 26 September 2026
- AnalysisWho Killed Rafik Hariri?
The 2005 assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister triggered a revolution, a UN investigation and a special international court. Fifteen years later, the court named one culprit, and left the bigger questions open.
- AnalysisOperation Rainbow: Rafah, a Year Later
In May 2004 Israeli forces swept into Rafah in southern Gaza to destroy smuggling tunnels. Hundreds of homes were demolished. A year on, families were still asking why.
- NewsWho Killed Gadhafi? Conflicting Stories Emerge
Muammar Gadhafi was captured alive near Sirte on 20 October 2011 and died within hours. How he died became the subject of competing accounts.
- AnalysisGadhafi Goes: 'Strongman' or 'Madman'? How the World Portrayed His End
Western media called him a madman; others remembered an anti-colonial strongman. The way the world described Gadhafi's fall said as much about the observers as about Libya.
- NewsHeir to the Saudi Throne Dies in New York
Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz died in October 2011, setting off the first of several rapid changes in Saudi Arabia's line of succession.
- ExplainerChristians and Zion: The British Stirrings of Christian Zionism
Long before American televangelists, the idea that Christians should help restore the Jews to Palestine took root in nineteenth-century Britain, among evangelical preachers, aristocrats and imperial strategists.
- AnalysisChristian Zionism: A Historical Analysis and Critique
Tens of millions of Christians believe that supporting the State of Israel is a biblical duty. Critics within the church argue that this belief rests on a misreading of scripture, and has real consequences for the Middle East.
- NewsMalaysia to Evacuate Students, Close Syria Embassy
As Syria's uprising turned into full-scale war in 2012, countries from Asia to the Gulf pulled out their citizens and shut their embassies in Damascus.