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In a wide-ranging conversation, Helen Thompson, a scholar of global politics, energy, and history at the University of Cambridge spoke to Jacobin about the great-power politics within the Middle East ...

Last year featured an unusually large number of efforts to rearrange the ethnic, religious and political realities of the Middle East. The most visible and endlessly frustrating effort is the ...

While some parts of the world experience horrific terrorism and abuse of Christians, churches have the opportunity to make the biggest difference for religious freedom in the world today. In this ...

which some interpret to allow marriage of girls in their early teens - or as young as nine under the Jaafari school of Islamic law followed by many Shiite religious authorities in Iraq.

The second batch of Israeli hostages set to be released by Hamas this weekend are four female soldiers. That's according to ...

The United States has a “relatively low level of religious nationalism” compared to other countries, but its impact on ...

Hamas has announced the names of the next four hostages it will release this weekend as part of a ceasefire deal with Israel ...

With Gaza’s north repopulated, Israel’s options for renewing the war become increasingly complex given the shifting dynamics on the ground. As people move north it seems that a lot of this war ...