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Hezbollah’s losses have led some in Lebanon to imagine a future without it.
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Today’s attack on Hezbollah struck a new kind of blow.
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Keir Starmer needs to address immigration, not because of Britain’s riots, but in spite of them.
Mark Pinder / Report Digital-Rea / Redux The Houthis’ Dream Come True
They have wanted a war with Israel for decades.
Mohammed Hamoud / Getty Clash of the Patriarchs
A hard-line Russian bishop backed by the political might of the Kremlin could split the Orthodox Church in two.
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Since staking claim to the Palestinian cause, the Yemeni militants have come to seem unstoppable.
MohammedHamoud / Getty Hezbollah Goes to the Theater
The Lebanese militant movement put on a play to stir the faithful. Watching it made me wonder about the real-life dramas that don’t make it to the stage.
Photographs courtesy of Robert F. Worth The Bizarre Story Behind Shinzo Abe’s Assassination
The man who allegedly killed the former prime minister says he was aiming for something larger: the Unification Church—the Moonies—and its political influence in Japan.
Illustration by Chantal Jahchan. Sources: DPA / Alamy; API / Gamma-Rapho / Getty; Minokuniya / Getty; Wikimedia.
