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The Brief In: A week from now, the World Cup will kick off in the US, Mexico and Canada. But the warmongering, authoritarianism, and visa bans of the Trump administration threaten to make this the most controversial in recent memory. Yet there is...

The Gulf has been a key target for Iranian missiles and drones. Iran has struck infrastructure, oil and gas installations, civilian areas, and US military bases. These attacks have struck at the heart of the Gulf's image as a safe and stable...

Is Syria finally having its accountability moment? In this episode of The Brief In, we examine Syria’s fragile and deeply contested transitional justice process after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The episode examines Syria’s transitional justice...

As the region scrambles to secure a ceasefire in Iran, the ceasefire in Gaza looks more unstable by the day. Israel continues to bomb the besieged enclave, killing civilans and adding to the misery that the people of Gaza have had to endure for over...

As global attention is held by the US, Iran, and the Strait of Hormuz, in the West Bank, Israeli settlers are running wild and spreading terror. Settler violence has been a problem for years, but recently it has ramped up, with attacks happening...

As a fragile US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon approaches its 17 May deadline, uncertainty is mounting over what comes next. Agreed in mid-April and extended to allow negotiations, the truce has been repeatedly violated, with continued...

After four week of war, a ceasefire between Iran and the US has been reached. While the details remain hazy, it is a welcome development, and the region has taken a step back from the edge. But in Lebanon, the bombing continues. The ceasefire deal...

The US and Israel continue to launch daily airstrikes against Iran. As a new Supreme Leader was elected, the country's leadership continues to be targeted and killed. And as Israeli and US planes drop bombs, Iran is flinging missiles across the...

Iran has changed forever. The US and Israel are firing missiles and dropping bombs on targets across Iran. Senior figures from the regime and the IRGC are being assassinated. Ayatollah Khamenei was killed on the first day of the war. The future of...

A little over a year from the start of the new government in Syria, violence returned to Aleppo. In January, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the forces of the interim Syrian government clashed in the Aleppo areas of Sheikh Maqsoud...