Margaret Evans

If the death toll from this week’s resumption of Israeli airstrikes has left any doubt that Israel has returned to war in Gaza — including more than 130 Palestinian children killed in a single day, according to UNICEF — then […]

It’s not only the Syrian public that’s getting used to a new political landscape after a coalition of opposition rebels launched a surprise offensive that toppled former president Bashar al-Assad’s 24-year rule in less than two weeks. International aid agencies —

A man standing on a wall outside Syria’s notorious Saydnaya prison near Damascus is calling out names from a sheaf of papers in his hands. Faces in the gathered crowds look up at him with a mixture of hope and fear.

Supporters of Israel’s decades-old settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territories have been quick to welcome Donald Trump’s recent U.S. election victory and what they clearly expect will be a boon to their aim of formally annexing the West Bank.  

As Lebanon endures more rounds of Israeli air and ground attacks, those peering into the distance at a gloomy horizon continue to point to the Lebanese army as one of the few state institutions capable of providing a stabilizing influence

Zahraa Badreddine lies wrapped up in a white blanket in a hospital bed at the Labib Medical Centre, in Lebanon’s coastal city of Sidon, an IV drip at her side. Badreddine’s face is flecked with small wounds, and the tears

Beirut is a city well used to the rhythms of crisis and conflict, able to shutter itself and open up again when danger passes, like a turtle or a hermit crab. But in the time since Israel’s assassination of top Hezbollah leader Hassan

There is a startled, exposed feel to what’s left of the Ramses barbershop on a major commercial artery in the Palestinian city of Jenin — even though there’s plenty of other destruction all around. Witnesses say its curved front entrance