Ira Sachs

As European trade ties return and energy giants sign deals, Damascus car bombs ask whether stability can coexist with transition.

The 79th Cannes Film Festival has arrived carrying less confidence in art's neutrality and more pressure to explain what cinema is for in a harder world.

A New York Times investigation has exposed the full scale of Israel's multi-year campaign to influence the Eurovision vote, pushing the contest into one of the deepest institutional crises in its 70-year history.

Israel's recent diplomatic recognition of Somaliland puts the full load of final sovereign legitimacy squarely on the political will of African capitals.

After Kuwait accused the IRGC of trying to infiltrate Bubiyan Island, the Gulf’s uneasy truce with Iran started to look dangerously temporary.