Edward Finkelstein

Syria's Ministry of Telecommunications announced Wednesday that Kuwait's Zain Group has been awarded a new mobile telecommunications licence in Syria, the latest in a series of Gulf investments flowing into the country since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.

There's casual, and then there's a king walking into a Jordanian restaurant in jeans and a polo shirt to grab lunch like a regular guy.

The Israeli government unanimously approved Sunday the recognition of the Armenian genocide, dealing a pointed blow to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a moment of acute tension between the two countries.

Lebanese Foreign Minister Joe Raggi received a call Saturday from his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi, who congratulated Beirut on signing the framework agreement with Israel negotiated under American auspices.

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem rejected a U.S.-brokered security agreement between Lebanon and Israel on Saturday a day after it was signed, describing it as a surrender to Israel.

Iranian chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf declared this week that the United States and Iran would jointly "guarantee Lebanon's unity and the integrity of its territories." 

Lebanese Kataeb party chief Samy Gemayel drew a hard line Monday, declaring that Lebanese sovereigntists would never accept living alongside an armed Hezbollah, regardless of what is agreed in the US-Iran talks in Switzerland.

Iranian and American negotiators have reached agreement on mechanisms to halt fighting in Lebanon and secure the Strait of Hormuz, Pakistan and Qatar announced Monday following the first round of formal negotiations at the Bürgenstock resort in the Swiss Alps.

The ink on the US-Iran memorandum of understanding was barely dry before Tehran's chief negotiator was already drawing lines in the sand.

As the United States and Iran prepare to sign their Memorandum of Understanding in Switzerland on Friday June 19, here are the 14 points of the agreement as revealed by multiple media outlets.

France is hosting a conference Friday bringing together civil society groups and foreign ministers from dozens of countries to push for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the UN-backed New York Declaration on Palestinian statehood.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday on his Truth Social network that the United States would strike Iran "very hard tonight," declaring that Iran's military capabilities had been largely destroyed.