On land, sea and in cyberspace, the Israelis and Iranians have been going at it for years
By David Patrikarakos
On Monday night a volley of rockets struck a base hosting US troops in Erbil
By David Patrikarakos
How an American outsider wrote the history of our future
By David Patrikarakos
Iranians are trapped. They die when they’re in lockdown, and they die when they are allowed out
By David Patrikarakos
Kareem Ennarah was taken from a restaurant and, that night, transferred to a Cairo jail
By David Patrikarakos
Someone somewhere has relayed a simple message: administrations may change, security concerns do not
By David Patrikarakos
The Party of God resists any external interference in Lebanese politics
By David Patrikarakos
Iran simply doesn’t have the money to go arms shopping
By David Patrikarakos
How a New Mexico-born preacher created a jihadist subculture that now exists across many western societies
By David Patrikarakos
One day you’re competing for gas at the bottom of the sea, the next day you’re sending each other’s soldiers there
By David Patrikarakos
Rafic Hariri was killed on Valentine’s Day 2005 alongside 21 others after a bomb exploded as his motorcade drove through Beirut
By David Patrikarakos
What was once unthinkable, let alone unsayable, no longer is
By David Patrikarakos
Who will negotiate with the IMF to get the bailout that Lebanon needs, almost literally, to survive?
By David Patrikarakos
The clock is ticking for Michel Aoun’s Lebanese government
By David Patrikarakos
In the eyes of many Turks, the modern west has rejected modern Turkey,
By David Patrikarakos
