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NARRATIVE: El-Alamein, June 2026 — Egypt plays its hand to save Gaza
El-Alamein. The Mediterranean coastal city west of Alexandria, made famous by the Second World War battles fought there in 1942–1943. It was there, in…
PROFILE: Rafael Grossi, the man who must verify the unverifiable against Iran
It was from Tokyo, on the margins of an international meeting, that Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), spoke…
COMMENTARY: Gaza phase 2 — disarmament, governance, reconstruction: the impossible triangle
In October 2025, President Donald Trump announced what he presented as the most transformative agreement for the Middle East in decades: a ceasefire between…
ESSAY: The Iran-USA 14-point deal — what the text says, omits, and truly threatens
On June 20, 2026, after weeks of secret negotiations conducted under American and Israeli military pressure on Iranian nuclear sites, the Trump and Pezeshkian…
OPINION: Morocco in Gaza — What One Arab Country Can Do Alone
On June 24, 2026, Moroccan military officers landed in Israel to join the command of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) stationed at the Kiryat…
COMMENTARY: The Trump-Iran Deal — A "Peace" Without Missiles or Militias That Looks Like Surrender
On June 17, 2026, the United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) intended to end the war that Washington and Tel…
COLUMN: Iran-USA in Lucerne — Four Working Groups to Defuse a Century of Mutual Distrust
There is something irreducibly banal — and extraordinary — about the image of American and Iranian technicians sitting around a table in Switzerland to…
EDITORIAL: The Lebanon-Israel Deal — A "Beginning of the Beginning" or Peace Without Hezbollah
On June 26, 2026, surrounded by Lebanese and Israeli representatives in the hushed corridors of the State Department, Marco Rubio announced what he called…
COMMENTARY: Netanyahu's "no time limit" — the permanent occupation isolating Israel from the world
On June 25, 2026, at a combat officers' graduation ceremony in the Negev, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz delivered remarks…