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U.S. policy in the Middle East

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  • Amer Ghalib und Donald Trump bei einem gemeinsamen Wahlkamp-Auftritt
    US election 2024

    Time to vote for Trump? How the Democrats are losing Arab voters

    Arab-Muslim voters in the US are turning away from the Democrats because of their support for Israel. In Michigan, a Democratic mayor has even endorsed Trump. The US election may well be decided in this state, which is home to about 240,000 Muslims.

  • View of the Kurdish town of Sulaymaniyah
    Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan

    Kurds drifting away from democracy

    In Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan, regional elections are being repeatedly postponed, institutions weakened and structures are becoming more autocratic

  • Mosche Zimmermann is an Israeli historian and was a visiting professor at several German universities for many years
    Israeli historian Moshe Zimmermann

    UN Gaza resolution is a "step along the way"

    On 10 June, the UN Security Council voted in favour of the U.S. plan for a ceasefire in Gaza. Israeli historian Moshe Zimmermann says this is progress towards peace. The coming days will reveal whether it is a "breakthrough"

  • U.S. President Joe Biden (left) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah in July 2022
    USA and Saudi Arabia

    Nuclear deal likely to prompt a Middle East arms race?

    One part of a predicted, closer U.S.-Saudi relationship is particularly controversial. Experts fear Saudi Arabia may use a civilian nuclear energy programme, supported by the U.S., to develop their own atomic bombs

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks, Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, 13 May 2024
    International Criminal Court

    What would an arrest warrant mean for Israeli PM Netanyahu?

    The International Criminal Court could issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu along with his defence minister and three Hamas leaders. If it does, what are the potential consequences?

  • U.S. and UK planes joined the Israeli air force in shooting down Iranian missiles and drones, with help from some Arab countries
    Iran drone attacks

    Why did some Arab countries help Israel?

    Some analysts saw the fact that Arab nations helped Israel and the U.S. repel a major Iranian attack as cause for celebration. Countries like Jordan have, however, more complicated motivations for coming to Israel's aid

  • Israeli protesters demand the return of Hamas-held hostages, smearing yellow paint on the windows of Israel's parliament in early April
    Hamas attacks on Israel

    Six months of grief and anger

    While support for Israel's war in Gaza, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 30,000 Palestinians, remains high among Jewish Israelis, the government is also under pressure to get the remaining hostages back

  • Palestinian and Gaza City resident Ibrahim Kharabishi and two of his children
    Voicemail from North Gaza

    26 minutes of misery

    An extract from the diary of Palestinian Ibrahim Kharabishi, who lives with his pregnant wife Nasreen and their three children in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City, where Ibrahim also looks after his two elderly parents

  • A Palestinian flag is caught in barbed wire near the Israeli West Bank barrier; houses can be seen in the background
    Prospects for peace in the Middle East

    The search for the Middle East formula

    Without rights for the Palestinians, there can be neither security for Israelis nor stability in the Middle East. There are four possible future scenarios

  • Women dressed in black carrying placards and Iraqi flags demonstrating on Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq in 2019
    Women in Iraq

    Breaking down barriers and pushing for independence

    After two incredibly tough decades for women since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, it is now cool to be young and female in Iraq. A report from Baghdad

  • Nimrod Flaschenberg during an "Israelis for Peace" protest in front of the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin
    Israelis for Peace in Berlin

    "Anything is better than Netanyahu"

    For seven weeks now, left-wing activist Nimrod Flaschenberg and other like-minded Israelis have been demonstrating outside Germany's foreign ministry

  • Afghanistan today: Women protest against the closure of beauty salons by the Taliban
    Afghanistan

    In the land of the hopeless

    More than two years after the Taliban seized power, Afghans are battling psychological problems in response to the apparent hopelessness of the situation in their country. A report from Kabul

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