New Lines Editorial Director Rasha Elass and contributing writer Farea Al-Muslimi discuss the growing threat to international ...

Wars do not alter the balance of power only when cities fall; it also shifts when geography acquires new value. This is precisely what has happened in Yemen, on its western coast in particular. Twelve ...

Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces at the Jabal Han front west of the city of Taiz on Oct. 3, 2026. (Ahmad al-Basha/AFP via Getty Images) Saudi media appears to be celebrating major victories ...

I met the women on a Sunday, their only day off. The temperature in Malatya, a city in eastern Turkey, was 122 degrees. They had dressed carefully — light makeup, fresh nail polish, their finest ...

In sixth-century Arabia, a man wakes up at night and begins to saddle his she-camel, something he must have done countless times, and she’s tired of it. The man is al-Muthaqqib al-Abdi, a pre-Islamic ...

Mohammad Sharafi, left, who survived the strikes at the Minab school on Feb. 28, 2026, with heavy burn marks, with his brother Ali, Sept. 23, 2026, Konarju, Iran. (Erfan Kouchari) At nearly 104 ...

A writer journeys through Hormozgan province, from Bandar Abbas fish market to the graves of Minab's schoolchildren and a bombed wedding in Kuhestak, where residents say the ceasefire never arrived.

Koshary, an Egyptian pasta and rice dish, at Marhaba restaurant in Tysons Corner, Virginia, Oct. 13, 2021. (Deb Lindsey/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The first time I told my wife, who is from ...

A writer journeys through Hormozgan province, from Bandar Abbas fish market to the graves of Minab's schoolchildren and a bombed wedding in Kuhestak, where residents say the ceasefire never arrived.

South Korean soccer player Son Heung-min raises a gold medal at the 18th Asian Games on Sept. 1, 2018. (Allsport Co./Getty Images) “Nobody calls Son Heung-min a bastard” is not a threat but a ...

When the podcast host Avi Kaner recommended that the Israeli passengers in Tabuk try Saudi coffee, a Saudi user’s reply went viral, drawing more than 20 million views. It was a photo of a cup of ...

Jason Burke has spent much of his career trying to understand political violence. He finds himself frustrated, then, when radicals or extremists who carry out such acts are dismissed as simply mad or ...