Barclays, musical festivals hit with Pro-Palestine protests
Al-Monitor's Jack Dutton speaks to protesters about their most recent targets, including Barclays bank and UK summer music festivals. Israeli strikes hit Gaza on Friday as truce talks with Hamas milit...
14 Juni 20249min
Iran's hard-line Guardian Council approves 6 presidential candidates
Iran’s Interior Ministry has announced the final list of presidential candidates approved by the hard-line Guardian Council. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is back in the Middle East, Israeli wa...
10 Juni 202414min
Turkey's foreign minister trip to China, Ugyhur response
Ezgi Akin, Al-Monitor’s Turkey editor, discusses Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan's visit to China this week. Lebanon’s head of the military, Joseph Aoun, is heading to Washington next week, Yemen’s Hou...
7 Juni 20248min
Why did the US join its EU partners in censuring Iran?
In a conversation with Kelsey Davenport, director for nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association, we discuss the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Wednesday vote to censure Iran for th...
6 Juni 202410min
Italy’s Meloni sours on Israel's Netanyahu
Al-Monitor's Rina Bassist chronicles how Rome has adjusted its position and Netanyahu can no longer assume Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is in his political pocket. Egyptian President Abdel Fa...
4 Juni 202411min
Jerusalem’s Armenian quarter stuck with "bum deal"
Al-Monitor's chief correspondent, traveled to the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem to sniff out a deal the community has been handed that would require them to forfeit much of their land to a luxury hote...
31 Maj 202416min
Saudi-Syrian relations thaw
After 12 years, Saudi Arabia has appointed an ambassador to Syria and Hajj flights between the two countries have resumed as Syria slowly returns to the Arab fold. Kuwait's newest oil refinery has upp...
29 Maj 20249min
Countdown to Iranian presidential election with Ali Hashem
In a dispatch from Tehran, Al-Monitor's contributor gives an outlook for the upcoming Iranian presidential election. Flights between Saudi Arabia and Syria resumed on Tuesday after more than a decade,...
28 Maj 20245min
